Kirralee Hayes
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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 May 2004 (age 20) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S13, SB13, SM13 | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Genesis Aquatics | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Rick Pendleton | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kirralee Hayes (born 26 May 2004) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[1]
Swimming
[edit]Hayes, a founding member of the Genesis Aquatics based at Genesis Christian College, qualified for the S13 (vision impaired) 50m Freestyle and 100m Butterfly at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2]
At 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, she finished second in Women's 50m Freestyle S13.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she swam in two events, the 50 m freestyle S11 and the 100 m butterfly S11 but did not qualify for the finals.[3]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 50 m freestyle S13. [4][5]
Hayes is based at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and coached by Yuriy Vdovychenko, but regularly returns to train at Genesis Aquatics with her coach Rick Pendleton.
References
[edit]- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
- ^ Crockford, Nick (7 July 2021). "Kirralee's perfect timing for Tokyo Games". Morton Daily. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- ^ "Kirralee Hayes". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
- ^ "Cole, Patterson And Levy Amongst Stars Of The Pool Ready To Splash And Dash In Birmingham". Commonwealth Games Australia. 5 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
External links
[edit]- 2004 births
- Living people
- Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Australian female butterfly swimmers
- S13-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Australian blind people