Song Lingling
 Song at the 2016 Paralympics | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Born | 17 January 1996 China |
| Sport | |
| Sport | swimming |
| Disability class | S6 |
| Event(s) | Freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, medley[1] |
Song Lingling (born 17 January 1996) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class. She has won two silver and a gold paralympic medal.
Life
Song was born in 1996 and she lost the use of her legs due to polio.[2] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won a silver medal in the SB5 100 m backstroke (S6).
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in London she won a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke (S6). Her team mate Lu Dong took the silver.[3] In the 200 metres she took another silver medal after being beaten by Ellie Simmonds of Great Britain.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Song Lingling.
- ^ Song Lingling, Rio2016, Retrieved 9 September 2016
- ^ China's Song grabs 100m backstroke S6 gold in Rio, 9 September 2016, Xinhuanet.com, Retrieved 12 September 2016
- ^ Paralympics 2016: Storey clinches 12th gold as Dias thrills Rio crowd – as it happened, The Guardian, Retrieved 9 September 2016
Categories:
- Paralympic swimmers of China
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Living people
- 1996 births
- Paralympic gold medalists for China
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Paralympic bronze medalists for China
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- S6-classified Paralympic swimmers
- Sportspeople from Shandong