Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003)[1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, winning a bronze medal, and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a silver and bronze medal. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal.[2]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 18 November 2003 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Paralympic swimming |
| Disability class | S14, SB14, SM14 |
| Club | St Andrew's SC |
| Coached by | Ashley Delaney |
Medal record | |
Personal
editStorm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.[3]
Swimming career
editAs a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister.[4] She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event.[4] At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, London, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14.[1]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14.[5] They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record.[6] She also won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower that Valeriia Shabalina of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another Australian Paige Leonhardt. She made three other individual finals.[7]
Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira.[8] She did not medal in three other events.
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished 6th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S14.[9] Storm won a silver medal at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester, England in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14.
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. She competed in three other events - Women's 100 butterfly S14 (9th), Women's 00 m freestyle S14 (7th) and Women's 100 m breaststroke SB14 (9th). [10]
Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2024, is coached by Ashley Delaney at St Andrews Swim Club on the Sunshine Coast.
Recognition
edit- 2018 – Junior Annual Gippstar Winner[11]
References
edit- ^ a b "Ruby Storm". 2019 World Para Swimming Championships website. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Media Guide Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (PDF). Sydney: Paralympics Australia. 2021. p. 34.
- ^ a b "Ruby ready to take Pan Pacifics by Storm". Latrobe Valley Express. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
- ^ "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ "New Trio Of Dolphins Completes Prestigious Commonwealth Games Pod". Commonwealth Games Australia. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "Ruby Storm". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ "Grant Patterson". 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Swimming Team For Paris 2024 Games". Paralympics Australia. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Junior Annual Gippstar Winners". Gippsland Sports Academy. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
