Andrew Lindsay (swimmer)
Appearance
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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Dunfermline, Scotland | 25 October 1979||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 57.2 kg (126 lb) (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Incas, Stirling Swim | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrew Lindsay (born 25 October 1979) is a British paralympic swimmer who has represented Great Britain at four Paralympic Games from 1996 to 2008 winning three medals. He competes in the S7 category.
At the 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta Lindsay competed in men's 50, 100 and 400 m freestyle and 100 m backstroke, winning the silver medal in the latter. He repeated the events at the 2000 Games in Sydney, this time winning gold in the 100 m backstroke. In 2004 in Athens he once again took gold in the 100 m backstroke.
He is the current world record holder for the S7 category over 200 m backstroke.
References
- "ParalympicsGB Team Beijing 2008: Swimming Team Biographies". British Paralympic Association. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
External links
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- 1979 births
- Paralympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- World record holders in paralympic swimming
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Scottish male swimmers
- British swimming biography stubs
- British Paralympic medalist stubs