Ashley Van Rijswijk

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Ashley van Rijswijk
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born31 August 2000 (2000-08-31) (age 21)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportParalympic swimming
Disability classS14, SB14, SM14
ClubWagga Wagga Swim Club
Coached byGennadiy Labara

Ashley van Rijswijk (born 31 August 2000) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2020 Toyko Paralympics.[1]

Personal[]

Ashley van Rijswijk is from Tumut, New South Wales and in 2021 is based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[2] She attended Gadara School in Tumut.

Swimming career[]

She is classified as a S14 swimmer. In October 2019, she was sidelined with a painful neck injury. “I dived into a pool and had muscle and ligament damage in my C3, 4 and 5 but mainly soft tissue damage.” [3] At the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, she swam1:17.36 in the 100m breaststroke heats to qualify fastest for the final but was runner up in the final with1:17.73. Despite missing the Tokyo 2021 qualifying time by a mere 11 hundredths of a second, she was selected for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[4]

Her main events the 100m Breastroke SB14 and the 200m individual medley SM14

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she finished fifth in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14 and did not qualify for the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14.[5]

In 2021, she is a Southern Sports Academy scholarship athlete.

References[]

  1. ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Ashley Off to the Paralympics". Southern Sports Academy. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Records keep crumbling on long road to Tokyo". Timut and Adelong Times. 12 September 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  4. ^ "Ashley Van Rijswijk qualifies for Tokyo 2021 Paralympics". Tumuit and Adelong Times. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Ashley Van Rijswijk". Tokyo Paralympics Official Results. Retrieved 8 October 2021.

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