Grace Harvey
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Grace Harvey is a British Para-swimmer, Paralympian Silver Medallist, European medalist, European & British record holder.
Life[]
Grace Harvey is a British para-swimmer competing in the S6 SB5 SM6 classification for swimmers with a physical impairment. Grace's home town is Ware.[1] She learnt to swim when aged four and she took it up as a sport to control the symptoms of cerebral palsy which caused her legs to spasm. She decided that she wanted to be an athlete after she watched the 2004 Summer Paralympics.[2]
Harvey's favourite competition location is Sheffield at the Ponds Forge sports centre.[1] In April 2021 she came first in points in the freestyle swimming where she beat Maisie Summers-Newton into second place.[3] She and both broke European records and together with they were all early picks for the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics by the selectors. Her good friend Alice Tai[1] had to withdraw from the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics due to an injury to her elbow in June 2021.[4] While Harvey was training in Japan before the Tokyo games began she (and the BBC) was invited to Suzuka International University where she tried out a robotic walking suit that allowed her to walk for the first time. She found the experience "overwhelming" but later that day she cried realising that this might be the first and last time and that she now knew a pleasure that she never known, but could now miss.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Getting to know Grace Harvey". British Swimming. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Grace Harvey - Swimming | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
- ^ "Grace is over the moon on BPSIM day one". British Swimming. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
- ^ "Elbow injury forces swimmer Alice Tai out of Paralympic Games". Messenger Newspapers. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Para-swimmer 'overwhelmed' by robotic suit walk". BBC News. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
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