Tiffany Thomas Kane
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2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait
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| Full name | Tiffany Thomas Kane | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia |
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| Born | 9 September 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB6, SM6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ravenswood Swimming Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Lachlan Falvey | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Tiffany Thomas Kane (born 9 August 2001) is a Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
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Personal
Thomas Kane was born on 9 August 2001 with hypochondroplasia and is a girl of short stature.[2] She attends Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney, New South Wales.[3]
Career
Thomas Kane took up swimming at the age of 3. She is a S6 swimmer.[4] In 2015, she trains under Mitch and Lach Falvey at Ravenswood Swim Club, the same club as dual world champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen.[2] She was the youngest Australian swimmer selected to compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland after breaking world records at the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships.[2] At the age of 13, at 2015 IPC Swimming Championships, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100m breaststroke SB6 in a world record time of 1:34.95,[2] silver medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 and bronze medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S6 and Women's 100 m Freestyle S6.[5] [6] She finished fifth in the Women's 100m Backstroke S6 and seventh in the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay 20pts.[7] She was awarded Swimming Australia's 2015 AIS Discovery of the Year Award.[8] In 2015, she is an New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder. [9]
At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, she set a world record of 43.06in Women's S6 in winning the Women’s 50 breast multi-class event.[10]
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External links
- Use Australian English from July 2015
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
- Pages using infobox swimmer with nationality parameter
- Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia
- Living people
- Sportspeople with dwarfism
- Sportswomen from New South Wales
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- 2001 births
