| Ashley van Rijswijk | |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Country: | Australia |
| Sport: | Paralympic swimming |
| Disability Class: | S14, SB14, SM14 |
| Club: | Wagga Wagga Swim Club |
| Coach: | Gennadiy Labara |
Ashley van Rijswijk (born 31 August 2000) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[1]
Ashley van Rijswijk is from Tumut, New South Wales and in 2021 is based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[2] She attended Gadara School in Tumut.
van Rijswijk is classified as a S14 swimmer. In October 2019, she was sidelined with a painful neck injury. “I dived into a pool and had muscle and ligament damage in my C3, 4 and 5 but mainly soft tissue damage.” [3] At the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, she swam 1:17.36 in the 100m breaststroke heats to qualify fastest for the final but ended up runner up with a time of 1:17.73. Despite missing the Tokyo 2021 qualifying time by a mere 11 hundredths of a second, she was selected for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[4]
Her main events are the 100m Breastroke SB14 and the 200m individual medley SM14.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, van Rijswijk qualified for the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14 but only manage fifth place. She swam in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14 but did not advance to the final.[5]
In 2021, she is a Southern Sports Academy scholarship athlete.