Ruby Storm
Australian Paralympic swimmer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003)[1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, winning a bronze medal, and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a silver and bronze medal. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 18 November 2003 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Paralympic swimming |
| Disability class | S14, SB14, SM14 |
| Club | St Andrew's SC |
| Coached by | Ashley Delaney |
Medal record | |
Personal
Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.[3]
Swimming career
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Perspective
As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister.[4] She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event.[4] At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, London, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14.[1]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14.[5] They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record.[6] She also won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower that Valeriia Shabalina of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another Australian Paige Leonhardt. She made three other individual finals.[7]
Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira.[8] She did not medal in three other events.
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished 6th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S14.[9] Storm won a silver medal at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester, England in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14.
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. She competed in three other events - Women's 100 butterfly S14 (9th), Women's 00 m freestyle S14 (7th) and Women's 100 m breaststroke SB14 (9th). [10]
Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2024, is coached by Ashley Delaney at St Andrews Swim Club on the Sunshine Coast.
Recognition
- 2018 – Junior Annual Gippstar Winner[11]
References
External links
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