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Emma Cattle
British Paralympian swimmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Emma Cattle (born 10 April 1988 in Luton)[1] is a British Paralympian competing in S10 events. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, and won medals at the 2009 and 2011 IPC Swimming European Championships.
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Personal life
Cattle has cerebral palsy.[1] She attended Barnfield College.[1]
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Cattle trains at Luton swimming club,[2] and competes in S10 and SM10 events.[1] She began swimming aged 8 at her local swimming club in Luton.[1] She was selected to compete at the 2008 Paralympics,[3] coming sixth in the final of the 100 metre backstroke S10 competition.[4] She also competed in the 50 metre freestyle S10, where she finished last in her heat,[5] and the Women's 200 m individual medley SM10, where she was disqualified in her heat.[6] Cattle qualified to compete at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships, her third appearance at the event.[2] She won a bronze medal in the 400 metre freestyle S10.[7] In 2009, Cattle broke the British 100m backstroke S10 record with a time of 1:12.55; her record was later broken in 2013.[8] At the 2011 IPC Swimming European Championships, Cattle won a silver medal in the 100 metres backstroke S10 event;[9] her time in the event was a national record. She also set a national record in the 50 metres freestyle event, and set personal bests in the 100 metres freestyle and 200m individual medley events.[10]
Cattle failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Paralympics after finishing eighth in the 400m mixed category freestyle final at the British Championships.[11] In 2015, Cattle won the mixed category 100m freestyle C final of a 2015 British Para-Swimming International Meet event in Glasgow.[12] She also competed in the 50m and 100m freestyle and 100m backstroke events in the East Region Winter Championships.[13]
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