Ruby Storm Explained

Ruby Storm
Nationality:Australian
Birth Date:18 November 2003
Country:Australia
Sport:Paralympic swimming
Disability Class:S14, SB14, SM14
Club:St Andrew's SC
Coach:Ashley Delaney

Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003) 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.[1]

Personal

Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.[2]

Swimming career

As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister.[3] She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event. 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.[4]

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.

Storm has a been selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France. [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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 16 June 2021. Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo. 17 June 2021. Paralympics Australia.
  2. Book: Media Guide Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Paralympics Australia. 2021. Sydney. 34.
  3. News: Ruby ready to take Pan Pacifics by Storm. 23 July 2018. Latrobe Valley Express. 16 September 2019.
  4. Web site: Ruby Storm. 2019 World Para Swimming Championships website. 16 September 2019.
  5. Web site: Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021 . 2022-07-24 . The Roar.
  6. Web site: 7 July 2022 . New Trio Of Dolphins Completes Prestigious Commonwealth Games Pod . 7 July 2022 . Commonwealth Games Australia.
  7. Web site: Ruby Storm . 25 August 2021 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . . 25 August 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210825092547/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n1498353-storm-ruby.htm . dead .
  8. Web site: Grant Patterson . 27 June 2022 . 2022 World Para Swimming Championships.
  9. Web site: 2022 Commonwealth Games Results . 15 August 2022 . Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020 .
  10. Web site: 14 June 2024 . Paralympics Australia Names Swimming Team For Paris 2024 Games . 15 June 2024 . Paralympics Australia.
  11. Web site: Junior Annual Gippstar Winners. Gippsland Sports Academy. 16 September 2019.

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