Maja Reichard
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Swedish |
Born | Nacka, Sweden | 27 May 1991
Sport | |
Country | Sweden |
Sport | Para swimming |
Disability class | S11, SB11, SM11 |
Medal record | |
Updated on 31 May 2016 |
Maja Reichard (born 27 May 1991) is a Swedish swimmer. She has a visual impairment caused by retinitis pigmentosa and competes in the S11 disability class. She's the reigning paralympic champion in 100 m breaststroke.
Reichard won a gold medal at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in the 100 m breaststroke. She entered four events at the 2012 Paralympics and came first in the 100 m breaststroke. She gained four medals, including one gold, at the 2013 World Championships and a further four at the 2014 European Championships.[1] She also won a bronze in 100 m backstroke at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
References
[edit]- ^ Infostrada Sports. "Biographies". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 10 December 2014. (search for "Maja Reichard")
External links
[edit]- Maja Reichard at the International Paralympic Committee
- Maja Reichard at Paralympics.se (archived) (in Swedish)
Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Swedish female backstroke swimmers
- Swedish female breaststroke swimmers
- Swedish female freestyle swimmers
- Swedish female butterfly swimmers
- Swedish female medley swimmers
- S11-classified para swimmers
- Paralympic swimmers with a vision impairment
- Paralympic swimmers for Sweden
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
- People from Nacka Municipality
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
- Sportspeople from Stockholm County
- 21st-century Swedish sportswomen
- Swedish blind people