Matt Levy
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Full name | Matthew John Levy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, New South Wales | 11 January 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classifications | S7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Cranbrook Eastern Edge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Angelo Basalo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthew John "Matt" Levy, OAM (born 11 January 1987) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics. These were his fourth Games.[1]
Personal
Levy has cerebral palsy and a vision impairment due to being born 15 weeks premature.[2][3] He attended St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney.[4] He works at Westpac Bank Bank and lives in Sydney.[2]
Competitive career
Levy is classified as an S8 swimmer.[5] Levy first competed for Australia in 2003; that year, he broke the 200 m freestyle short course world record.[2] He competed but did not win any medals at the 2004 Athens Games.[6] He competed at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships and won four silver and four bronze medals at the 2007 Telstra Short Course Championships.[2] At the 2008 Beijing Games, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay 34 pts event.[6] At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event, two silver medals in the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m freestyle events, and two bronze medals in the 50 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley events.
At the 2012 London Paralympics he won five medals: a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle S7, and three bronze medals in the 200 m individual medley SM7, 100 m breaststroke SB7 and 4×100 m medley relay.[6] He also participated in the 400 m freestyle S7, 50 m butterfly S7 and 50 m freestyle S7 events.[6]
Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, he won two gold medals in the 200 m individual medley S7 and 4×100 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle S7.[7][8]
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, he won silver medals in the Men's 100 m freestyle S7 and 200 m medley SM7 and bronze medals in the Men's 50 m freestyle S7 and Men's 4×100 m freestyle relay 34 points.[9][10][11][12] He finished fourth in the men's 100 m breaststroke SB7, men's 50 m butterfly S7 and men's 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts.[13]
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in the Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM7. He placed fourth in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S7 and Men's 100 m Freestyle S7, fifth in the Men's 50 m Butterfly S7, fourth in the Men's 4×100 m Medley Relay (34 points) and fifth in the Men's 4×100 m Freestyle (34 Points).[14]
As of 2015, he is a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[15]
Recognition
He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[3] In 2015,he was named Athlete of the Year with a Disability at the New South Wales Sport Awards.[16]
References
- ^ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Matt Levy". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ Bannister, Laura (7 September 2009). "Water Boys: St Andrew's Victories Make a Splash". St Andrew's Cathedral School. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ Wake 2010, p. 4
- ^ a b c d "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ "Men's relay team back it up in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Twenty-seven medals for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "Ellie's world record double in golden start for Dolphins in Glasgow". Swimming Australia News. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^ "Six golds and one world record for Ukraine at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympic Committee News. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ^ "Aussies unite for a nail biting bronze medal win in the men's relay". Swimming Australia News. 18 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ^ "Seven golds in seven days for Dias at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympic Committee News. 19 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- ^ "Matthew Levy results". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ "Matthew Levy". Rio Paralympics Official site. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "2015 swimming scholarships" (PDF). New South Wales Institute of Sport website. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- ^ "LEVY Matt". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
Bibliography
- Wake, Rebekka (September 2010). "Golden Glow Over Australian Swimming". Australian Paralympian. 2. Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee.
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External links
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- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
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- Sportspeople with a vision impairment
- Sportspeople with cerebral palsy
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
- S7-classified Paralympic swimmers
- Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimmers
- Sportspeople from Sydney
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- 1987 births
- Living people