CHALLIS Ellie

Date of Birth: 23 Mar 2004

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Sport Class: S3,SB2

Place of residence : LITTLE CLACTON

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 50m Freestyle - S4
	Women's 100m Freestyle - S3	4
	Women's 50m Backstroke - S3	2
	Women's 50m Breaststroke - SB3
	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points GBR Great Britain	8

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay - 20 Points Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Backstroke - S3 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Backstroke - S3 Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle - S3 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle - S3 Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Breaststroke - SB3 Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle - S4 Heat 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
3	50m Backstroke - S3	2019	London, GBR	58.91
5	50m Breaststroke - SB3	2019	London, GBR	1:05.96
8	150m Individual Medley - SM4	2019	London, GBR	3:33.46
10	50m Butterfly - S5	2019	London, GBR	58.30

Snowboarding, socialising with friends and family, baking. (sportsaid.org.uk, 28 Feb 2019; thesun.co.uk, 24 Feb 2019; swimming.org, 21 Apr 2020)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

Colchester Phoenix Amateur Swimming Club [Great Britain]

Graeme Smith [national], GBR

She began swimming at age eight. (telegraph.co.uk, 22 Jan 2020)

She was inspired to swim after watching a dolphin named Winter, whose tail was amputated after getting caught in a crab trap. "She swims differently to all the other dolphins." (Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019; BBC Earth Unplugged YouTube channel, 22 Sep 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019)

Winning bronze in the S3 50m backstroke at the 2019 World Championships in London, England. (meningitisnow.org, 03 Oct 2019)

British Para swimmers Ellie Simmonds and Ellie Robinson. (sportsaid.org.uk, 28 Feb 2019; Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019)

She often arrives at competitions on her blue scooter, which she calls 'Whirly'. (SportsAidUK YouTube channel, 30 Mar 2020)

Philosophy:

"You have to find something you love to keep you fit." (meningitisnow.org, 03 Oct 2019)

She won the Para swimming Talent Athlete of the Year award for 2019 at the Swim England National Awards. (swimming.org, 02 Dec 2019)

In 2019 she received the One-to-Watch award from SportsAid. (swimming.org, 20 Nov 2019)

She received the Young Hero award and overall Amplifon Award at the 2019 Amplifon Awards for Brave Britons. (Amplifon UK & EIRE Facebook page, 28 Apr 2020)

In 2018 she won the Inspirational Youth Award at the Pride of Essex Awards in England. (gazette-news.co.uk, 28 Feb 2019)

General Interest

Classification
S3, SB2, SM3 (IPC, 12 Feb 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019)

Impairment Details
She had all four limbs amputated as a result of contracting viral meningitis at 16 months old. (Olympic YouTube channel, 16 Jan 2019; clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk, 07 Jun 2019)

General
FROM IDOL TO TEAMMATE
She says that competing alongside her idol Ellie Simmonds at the 2019 World Championships in London, England, ranks among the best moments of her career. "I looked up to Ellie Simmonds. To be selected for worlds and to be on a team with this amazing person that I watched on the TV at London 2012 and Rio 2016 was incredible. Things like when I put pictures on Instagram and she messages me congratulating me and talking to me at camps are unbelievable. She's just a normal person, but I look up to her so much. For her, as the person who inspired me to get into the sport, to be one of the people who I see regularly is quite crazy to me." (gazette-news.co.uk, 12 Mar 2020)

Social Media

Legend

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

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