McTERNAN Madeleine

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
5	100m Backstroke - S14	2019	London, GBR	1:11.37
9	200m Individual Medley - SM14	2019	London, GBR	2:38.62
10	200m Freestyle - S14	2019	London, GBR	2:18.17

Maddie (coffscoastadvocate.com.au, 30 Jun 2015)

Athlete

English

St Hilda's Aquatics [Southport, QLD, AUS]

Ken Malcolm [club]

She began swimming as a child and won her first competitive medal in 2013 when she was in grade six at St Francis Xavier School in Woolgoolga, NSW, Australia. (Instagram profile, 01 Mar 2020; woolplism.catholic.edu.au, 23 Nov 2018)

She had a passion for water and swimming from a young age. "In late 2014 my coach decided to increase my training. Not long after that I did a competition in November [2014] and realised that my times dropped really quickly - that's when I realised, I could do something here." (woolplism.catholic.edu.au, 23 Nov 2018; swimming.org.au, 10 May 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 01 Mar 2020)

She does nine sessions in the pool per week, as well as sprint and endurance drills, gym workouts and CrossFit sessions. (paralympic.org.au, 01 Sep 2019)

Australian Para swimmer Jacqueline Freney. (The Coffs Coast Advocate, 25 Apr 2015)

"Don't let your disability stop you from what you want to do. They always say get rid of the 'dis' and you'll always have 'ability' in there, so as long as you believe in yourself that you can do it you can be just as good as anyone else who tries." (swimming.org.au, 10 May 2019)

She was presented with the 2019 President's Choice award by Swimming Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. (Instagram profile, 02 Jun 2019; swimminggoldcoast.org.au, 01 Jun 2019)

In 2019 she received the Female Swimmer of the Year award from St Hilda's Aquatics in Southport, QLD, Australia. (Instagram profile, 02 Jun 2019)