Jacqueline Freney
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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 June 1992 Brisbane, Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jacqueline Freney (born 6 June 1992 in Brisbane, Queensland)[1] is a paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. Freney was born with cerebral palsy. She won a trio of bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Games in the women's 100m freestyle S8 event, 400m freestyle S8 event and 50m freestyle S8 event.[2] In 2012 at the London Paralympic Games she won gold medals in the women's 100m backstroke S7, women's 50m butterfly S7, 100m freestyle S7, 50m freestyle S7, 200m individual medley SM7 and 4 x 100m freestyle relay 34 pts.
Freney lives in Ballina, New South Wales and is coached by her father Michael.[1] Her grandfather Peter Freney coached 2000 Sydney Games multiple gold medallist Siobhan Paton.[1] In 2008, she was awarded an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship.[1]
At the 2010, IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands she won silver medals in the women's 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle events S8 events. In 2011, a week before the Can-Am Swimming Open, Freney was reclassified from S8 to S7. At the 2011 Can-Am Swimming Open in La Mirada, she set a world record in the S7 400m freestyle event twice, once during the heats and again during the finals with a time of 4:59.95 on her way to winning a gold medal. At the Can-Am Swimming Open, she won two silver medals in the S7 50m and 100m freestyle events.[3]
In February 2012, she was named Ballina Shire's Sportsperson of the Year[4].
References
- ^ a b c d "IPC Profile - Jacqueline Freney". International Paralympic Committee Website. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
- ^ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
- ^ "Sport News". Paralympic.org. 2011-12-12. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
- ^ "Freney is a top sport". Ballina Shire Advocate. 12 February 2012.
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- Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia
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- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
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- Living people
- Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimmers
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
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