Isabella Vincent (swimmer)
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Birth name | Isabella Dawn Vincent | ||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Izzy | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||
Born | Burnside, South Australia | 14 January 2006||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||
Classifications | S7 | ||||||||||||||||
Club | Norwood Swimming Club | ||||||||||||||||
Coach | Shaun Curtis | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Isabella Vincent (born 14 January 2006) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the age of fifteen, she was the youngest Australian swimmer selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, where she won a silver and bronze medal.[1]
Personal[]
Vincent lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She was born with sacral agenesis or caudal regression syndrome. She attended Marryatville Primary School.[2] Since 2020, she has attended Pembroke School.
Swimming[]
Vincent took up competitive swimming in 2018 after a stint of post-operative hydrotherapy. Joining the EnABLE program at Norwood Swimming Club with coach Alana Fuller. She is classified as an S7. At 2018 School Sport Australia Swimming Championships in Hobart she collected the most medals of any with nine – seven gold, one silver and one bronze. At the 2020 SA Short Course Swimming Championships, she won the Matthew Cowdrey Trophy for best multi-class performance.[3]
At the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, Vincent came first in the S7 - 400m freestyle S6-S13, 100m backstroke and second in the SM7 200m individual medley.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100m Freestyle 34 pts and the bronze medal in the Women's 4x100m Medley 34 pts. She swam in two individual events and finished sixth in the Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM7. [4]
References[]
- ^ Sutton, Malcolm (25 June 2021). "Meet 'Izzy', Australia's youngest Paralympics swimmer, who is ready to take on Tokyo". ABC News. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
- ^ "Izzy the Superfish makes a big splash in Hobart". Messenger - The City. Adelaide, Australia. 15 August 2018.
- ^ "Relive the SA Short Course Swimming Championships with our full replays of every session". The Advertiser. 5 August 2020.
- ^ "Isabella Vincent". Tokyo Paralympics Official Results. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
External links[]
- Female Paralympic swimmers of Australia
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Living people
- S7-classified Paralympic swimmers
- 2006 births
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- People with caudal regression syndrome
- Sportspeople from Adelaide
- Sportswomen from South Australia