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Ruby Storm
Australian Paralympic swimmer

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. At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal.

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Personal

Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.3

Swimming career

As 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.5 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 S14.6

At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14.7 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.8 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.9

Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira.10 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 S14.11 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). 12

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

  • 2018 – Junior Annual Gippstar Winner13

References

  1. "Ruby Storm". 2019 World Para Swimming Championships website. Retrieved 16 September 2019. https://www.paralympic.org/london-2019/schedule-results/info-live-results/swlo19/eng/zb/engzb_swimming-athlete-profile-n40729-storm-ruby.htm ↩

  2. "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021. https://www.paralympic.org.au/2021/06/paralympics-australia-names-powerful-para-swimming-team-for-tokyo/ ↩

  3. Media Guide Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (PDF). Sydney: Paralympics Australia. 2021. p. 34. https://www.paralympic.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/PA_Tokyo2020MediaGuide_AUS_FINAL_web.pdf ↩

  4. "Ruby ready to take Pan Pacifics by Storm". Latrobe Valley Express. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2019. https://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/story/5541790/ruby-ready-to-take-pan-pacifics-by-storm/ ↩

  5. "Ruby ready to take Pan Pacifics by Storm". Latrobe Valley Express. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2019. https://www.latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/story/5541790/ruby-ready-to-take-pan-pacifics-by-storm/ ↩

  6. "Ruby Storm". 2019 World Para Swimming Championships website. Retrieved 16 September 2019. https://www.paralympic.org/london-2019/schedule-results/info-live-results/swlo19/eng/zb/engzb_swimming-athlete-profile-n40729-storm-ruby.htm ↩

  7. "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 24 July 2022. https://www.theroar.com.au/olympics/australian-paralympic-team/ ↩

  8. "New Trio Of Dolphins Completes Prestigious Commonwealth Games Pod". Commonwealth Games Australia. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022. https://commonwealthgames.com.au/new-trio-of-dolphins-completes-prestigious-commonwealth-games-pod/ ↩

  9. "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. https://web.archive.org/web/20210825092547/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n1498353-storm-ruby.htm ↩

  10. "Grant Patterson". 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. Retrieved 27 June 2022. https://www.paralympic.org/madeira-2022/schedule-results ↩

  11. "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022. https://commonwealthgames.com.au/games/ ↩

  12. "Paralympics Australia Names Swimming Team For Paris 2024 Games". Paralympics Australia. 14 June 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024. https://www.paralympic.org.au/2024/06/paralympics-australia-names-swimming-team-for-paris-2024-games/ ↩

  13. "Junior Annual Gippstar Winners". Gippsland Sports Academy. Retrieved 16 September 2019. https://www.sportgippsland.org.au/award/junior-annual-gippstar-winners/ ↩