Clare Cunningham (athlete)
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Born | Hillingdon, UK |
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Height | 5'6" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Clare Cunningham (née Bishop) (born 15 Jun 1977) is a paratriathlete and former Paralympic swimmer representing Great Britain.[1] She was born without her left forearm.[2]
Cunningham first swam in international competition at the age of 13, at the 1990 World Games for the Disabled in Assen, The Netherlands.[3] At the 1992 Summer Paralympics, Cunningham won the Women's S9 50m freestyle event in what was then World Record time.[4] She won silver medals in 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and 4 × 100 m medley relay events.[5] She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics but did not win a medal.[5] She retired from swimming after the Atlanta Paralympic games.[1]
In 2006, Cunningham turned to triathlon.[1][2] Initially competing in age-group races against non-disabled triathletes, she discovered paratriathlon in 2009.[1][6] Classified as a TRI-4 (arm-impaired) paratriathlete, she became the 2009 ITU European Paratriathlon Champion and 2009 World Paratriathlon Champion in her class.[7] She placed second at the ITU World Paratriathlon Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2012.[7]
In late 2012, Cunningham was elected to the International Triathlon Union Athletes Committee. She and South African Oswald Kydd, elected on the same day, are the first-ever paratriathlete representatives on the ITU Athletes Committee.[8][9]
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- Paratriathletes of Great Britain
- British triathletes
- Female triathletes
- Paralympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- 1977 births
- Living people
- People from Hillingdon
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics