Katherine Rose Downie OAM (born 12 January 1996) is an Australian Paralympian. Kat first represented Australia in 2011. Kat represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming and was a member of both the Gold medal Women's 34 point 4 x 100 free and 4 × 100 medley relay teams. Kat placed fourth in both her pet events the 100 backstroke and 200IM.
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Full name | Katherine Rose Downie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Kat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Aberdeen, Scotland | 12 January 1996|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Perth City Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Matt Magee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Katherine lives with mild right hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy and is an Australian S10 classified swimmer.
Personal
editDownie was born on 12 January 1996 in Aberdeen, Scotland.[1][2][3][4] She has right hemiplegia spastic cerebral palsy",[1] a condition she has had since birth.[1] As of 2012[update], Katherine is an Architecture student at Curtin University.[1][failed verification]
Swimming
editDownie is an S10 classified swimmer.[1][5] She is a member of the Perth City Swim Club,[6] and is coached by Matt Magee.[1] She has set three world records,[2][6] all at the 2011 Australian National Open Short Course Championships.[2] The records were for the 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke events.[2][3][7][8][9]
Downie learned to swim as a baby/toddler in Aberdeen Scotland. She became a competitive swimmer in 2007 when she was ten years old.[1][2][6] She first represented Australia in an international competition in 2011.[1] She competed at the 2011 Arafura Games.[1] She participated in the 2012 Australian Swimming Championships/London Olympic Trials in Australia as a sixteen-year-old. She finished second in the 200m individual medley event with a time of 2.34.21. She had a personal best time of 1.02.88 in the 100m freestyle, personal best time of 29.03 in the 50m freestyle, and personal best time of 32.04 in the 50m butterfly.[6][9] In the women's 50m backstroke multi class event, she finished second with a time of 33.62.[10] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[5][9][11] She attended a Paralympic farewell ceremony at Perth's State Basketball Centre in late July.[12] She competed in nine events and won two gold medals as a member of the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle and 4 × 100 m Medley Relay (34 points) teams.[13]
Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she won a silver medal in the Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM10 and bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S10.[14][15]
She 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."[4] In 2013 and 2014, she was awarded Wheelchair Sports WA Junior Sports Star of the Year.[16][17][non-primary source needed]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Katherine Downie". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d e "Katherine breaks three world records". Perth, Western Australia: Hills News. 16 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ a b "World records fall to Downie". Perth, Western Australia: inMyCommunity. 16 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". The Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Paralympic swim team revealed". Australian Paralympic Committee. 10 July 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Katherine ready for London". Perth, Western Australia: inMyCommunity. 17 April 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Katherine ready for London". Guardian Express. Perth, Australia. 17 April 2012. p. 58. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ Brown, Tyler (10 April 2012). "Kaths quest". Wanneroo Times. Perth, Australia. p. 63. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ a b c "Downie books a ticket to London". Comment News. Perth, Australia. 10 April 2012. p. 60. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Swimming Victoria". Swimming Victoria. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
- ^ "Cowdrey leads Paralympic swim team — ABC Grandstand Sport — ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ Foreman, Glen (24 July 2012). "Aussie paralympians throw down gauntlet to the Poms". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 July 2012.
- ^ "Katherine Downie". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ "Men's relay team back it up in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 16 August 2013. Archived from the original on 12 March 2015. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Twenty-seven medals for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 19 August 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "WSWA 18th Annual Sports Star Awards". Wheelchair Sports WA. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
- ^ "19th Annual Sports Star of the Year Awards". Wheelchair Sports WA Facebook. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
External links
edit- Katherine Downie at the International Paralympic Committee
- Katherine Downie at Swimming Australia (archived) (2015-04-24)
- Katherine Downie on Facebook
- Katherine Downie on Twitter