Tiffany Thomas Kane

Tiffany Thomas Kane

2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait
Personal information
Full name	Tiffany Thomas Kane
Nationality	Australia
Born	(2001-09-09) 9 September 2001
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Classifications	S6, SB6, SM6
Club	Ravenswood Swimming Club
Coach	Lach Falvey
Medal record paralympic swimming Representing  Australia Summer Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke SB6 2016 Rio de Janeiro 50 m freestyle S6 2016 Rio de Janeiro 50 m butterfly S6 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m medley SM6 IPC Swimming World Championships 2015 Glasgow 100 m breaststroke SB6 2015 Glasgow 50 m butterfly S6 2015 Glasgow 50 m freestyle S6 2015 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S6

Tiffany Thomas Kane (born 9 August 2001) is a Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics,^[1] winning a gold and three bronze medals.

Personal

Thomas Kane was born on 9 August 2001 with hypochondroplasia and is of short stature.^[2] She attends Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney, New South Wales.^[3]

Career

Thomas Kane took up swimming at the age of 3. She is a S6 swimmer.^[4] In 2015, she trains under Lach Falvey at Ravenswood Swim Club, the same club as dual world champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen.^[2] She was the youngest Australian swimmer selected to compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland after breaking world records at the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships.^[2] At the age of 13, at 2015 IPC Swimming Championships, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100m breaststroke SB6 in a world record time of 1:34.95,^[2] silver medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 and bronze medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S6 and Women's 100 m Freestyle S6.^{[5] [6]} She finished fifth in the Women's 100m Backstroke S6 and seventh in the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay 20pts.^[7] She was awarded Swimming Australia's 2015 AIS Discovery of the Year Award.^[8] In 2015, she is a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[9]

At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, she set a world record of 43.06in Women's S6 in winning the Women’s 50 breast multi-class event.^[10]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won the gold medal in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB6 with Paralympic record time of 1:35.39. ^[11]She also won bronze medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle, 50 m Butterfly S6 and 200 m Individual Medley SM6.^[11]

In reflection on racing at Rio, Thomas says "It's taken everything away. Just to think that I'm here competing for my country, I've just not stopped trying every time. It's just been such a good time and I've enjoyed it every second." ^[12] She continues to say "I wanted that gold medal in my race; I knew I had to go my best and it’s just such an amazing thing to have around me."^[13]

References

External links

• Australian Paralympic Committee Profile
• International Paralympic Committee Swimming Profile