VARGAS BLANCO Sara

Date of Birth: 16 Nov 2006

Age: 14

Gender: Female

Sport Class: S6

Birth Country:

Colombia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 50m Freestyle - S6	6
	Women's 400m Freestyle - S6
	Women's 100m Backstroke - S6
	Women's 50m Butterfly - S6	6
	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points COL Colombia

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle - S6 Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle - S6 Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Butterfly - S6 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Butterfly - S6 Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Freestyle - S6 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - S6 Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Languages spoken:

IDRD Bogota [Colombia]

Stevens Ruiz [personal], from 2018

She began swimming at age four. She began training seriously in 2018 in Bogota, Colombia. (eltiempo.com, 31 Aug 2019; elespectador.com, 01 Sep 2019)

She wanted to follow into the footsteps of her older sister Ana Gabriela, who competed in swimming. She was later discovered by coach Stevens Ruiz. "Sport is my life, my career." (eltiempo.com, 31 Aug 2019; elespectador.com, 01 Sep 2019)

To finish among the top five at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (paralympic.org, 29 Nov 2019)

Winning four gold medals at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. (feminadeportes.com, 30 Oct 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 09 Aug 2021)

British Para swimmer Ellie Simmonds, South African Para swimmer Natalie du Toit. (colombia.as.com, 06 May 2020)

She was voted Best Female Athlete of the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru, in a public poll organised by the Americas Paralympic Committee. (paralympic.org, 03 Oct 2019)

General Interest

Classification
S6, SB6, SM6 (IPC, 09 Aug 2021)

Type of Impairment
Short stature (elespectador.com, 01 Sep 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (elespectador.com, 01 Sep 2019)

Impairment Details
She was born with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature. (elespectador.com, 01 Sep 2019; eltiempo.com, 31 Aug 2019)

Milestones

At age 12 years and 282 she was the youngest athlete to win a medal at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru, when she won silver in the S6 400m freestyle. The medal also made her the youngest Colombian athlete to win a Parapan American Games medal in the history of the Games. (paralympic.org, 03 Oct 2019, SportsDeskOnline, 09 Oct 2020)

Social Media

https://twitter.com/saravar84140783

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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