Alexander Tuckfield
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | 5 November 2004 (age 20) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 |
| Club | Aquablitz Toongabbie |
| Coach | Gavin Stewart |
Medal record | |
Alexander Tuckfield (born 5 November 2004) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He began swimming at the age on ten. He has cerebral palsy.[1] At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he won a bronze medal[2]
Swimming
[edit]Tuckfield who was born on 5 November 2004 and has cerebral palsy. He began swimming at the age of ten.[3]
At the 2020 Swimming Australia Virtual Championships, he broke the Men's 200m Freestyle S9 world record.[4]
Tuckfield finished second in the Men's 400 m S9 at 2021 Australian Swimming Trials and qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[5]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Tuckfield qualified first in his heat and then won the bronze medal in the Men's 400 m freestyle S9. His time of 4:13.54 was three-and-a-half seconds slower than the gold medal winner William Martin of Australia. He also swam in the 50 m freestyle S9 but failed to qualify for the final.[6]
At the 2024 European Para Swimming Championships in Madeira, Tuckfield took Bronze in the Men's 100 m Freestyle S10, and swam the second leg in the mixed 4x100m Freestyle 34pts where the team took the bronze and set an OC Record with a time of 4:11.56
References
[edit]- ^ "Alexander Tuckfield | Swimming Australia". swimming.org.au. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ "Alexander Tuckfield". Inostrada IPC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "2020 Swimming Australia Virtual Championships". Swim Swam. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Eight Para swimmers claim Tokyo tickets at trials/". NSWIS. 17 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Alexander Tuckfield". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- 2004 births
- Living people
- Australian male freestyle swimmers
- Male Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- S9-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen