Daniel Fox (swimmer)

Daniel Fox (born 21 May 1994) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. He represented Australia ^[1] at the 2016 Rio Paralympics being awarded a bronze^[2] most recently in the 200m Freestyle S14. He has won gold at the Global Games, the Arafura Games, World Championships, Can-Am Championships, Para Pan Pacific Championships, EnergyAustralia Championships and the Commonwealth Games. Daniel also holds the world record for the 50m freestyle (24.77) and the 100m freestyle record (53.50^[3]) in the S14 classification. Daniel Fox is also the Australian ambassador for the INAS Global Games in 2019.

Daniel Fox

2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fox
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Fox
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1994-05-21) 21 May 1994 (age 30) Australiatown, Perth Amboy New Jersey
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, freestyle
Classifications	S14, SB14, SM14
Club	-
Coach	-
Medal record Men's paralympic swimming Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 2012 London 200 m freestyle S14 2016 Rio 200 m freestyle S14 World Championships (LC) 2013 Montreal 200 m freestyle S14 2010 Eindhoven 200 m freestyle S14 Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 200m freestyle S14 2018 Gold Coast 200m freestyle S14

Personal

He is actively involved in the local community often visiting his old High School Iona College with a goal to "inspire the younger generation and other kids with learning difficulties to do anything they put their mind to.^[4]"

Swimming

Fox is an S14 classified swimmer.^[5] He trains at the Brisbane-based Chandler Swimming Centre with Coach Rob Hindmarsh ^[5] and is a member of the Chandler Swimming Club.^[6]

Daniel Fox in the Czech Republic at the 2009 Global Games wearing the three gold medals he won in separate events.

Fox started swimming when he was a toddler.^[5] He started competing in 2009 as an eighteen-year-old and made his national team debut that same year when he competed at the Global Games. At that competition, he earned three gold and two silver medals.^[5] This was Daniel's first international meet where he showed potential and enjoyed the experience. Daniel competed in the 2010 World Championships^[5] in the men's 200m freestyle event where he finished second.^[7] At the 2011 Arafura Games, he won four gold medals.^[5] He earned a bronze medal and three gold medals at the 2011 Can AM Championships in California.^[5] He competed in the 2012 Australian national championships.^[6] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming^[8][9][10] in the 200m freestyle and backstroke events.^[6] At these games, Daniel swam at the Aquatics Centre placing fourth in the 100m backstroke and winning silver in the 200m Breastroke. This placing was incredibly close: finishing 0.13 seconds behind Iceland's Jon Margeir Sverrisson. These achievements were mores notable for a games with record number of participants (4237) ^[11] Going into the Rio Paralympic Games, Daniel was ranked third in the world and trained four hours a day in the pool.^[6]

Daniel has a long list of achievements, notably:

Fox at the 2012 London Paralympics

-Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Fox won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14.^[12]

-At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland he won the gold medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. In the heats, Fox broke the world record which he still holds.^[13]

Daniel Fox competing in the 2012 London Paralympic Games

-At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, he finished fourth in the Men's 200m Freestyle S14, eighth in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14 and sixteenth in the Men's 200m Individual Medley SM14.^[14]

-At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14. The leaders in this race were only separated by 0.37 seconds at the conclusion of the race.^[15] He also competed in Men's 100m Backstroke S14 finishing sixth and Men's 200m Individual Medley SM14 but didn't qualify for the final.^[16]

-In 2016, he is a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder.^[17]

Professional results

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Event	Year	Competition	Venue	Time	Position
100m Backstroke	2009	Global Games	Czech Republic	1:07.86	Silver
50m Backstroke	2009	Global Games	Czech Republic	30.87	Gold
4x50m Freestyle	2009	Global Games	Czech Republic	1:46.90	Gold
4x50m Medley	2009	Global Games	Czech Republic	1:59.62	Gold
50m Freestyle	2010	Australian Age Multi Class Championships	Canberra	26.63	Gold
100m Freestyle	2010	Australian Age Multi Class Championships	Canberra	57.62	Gold
50m Butterfly	2010	Australian Age Multi Class Championships	Canberra	28.20	Gold
100m Butterfly	2010	Australian Age Multi Class Championships	Canberra	1:04.25	Gold
400m Freestyle	2010	Australian Age Multi Class Championships	Canberra	4:39.36	Gold
200m Freestyle	2010	IPC World Championships	Eindhoven	2:03.61	Silver
200m Freestyle	2011	Pan Pacific Championships	Emerton		Gold
100m Backstroke	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	1:09.53	Gold
100m Butterfly	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	1:04.31	Bronze
100m Freestyle	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	57.74	Gold
400m Freestyle	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	4:31.39	Gold
50m Freestyle	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	25.87	Silver
200m Freestyle	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	2:06.45	Gold
50m Backstroke	2011	Arafura Games	Darwin	31.85	Silver
200m Freestyle	2011	Can-Am Championships	USA		Gold
100m Freestyle	2011	Can-Am Championships	USA		Gold
50m Freestyle	2011	Can-Am Championships	USA		Gold
100m Backstroke	2011	Can-Am Championships	USA		Bronze
200m Freestyle	2011	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Canada	2:01.54	Gold
50m Freestyle	2011	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Canada	25.68	Gold
100m Freestyle	2011	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Canada	55.53	Gold
100m Freestyle	2012	EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships	Adelaide	54.38	Gold
200m Freestyle	2012	Paralympics	London	1:59.62	Silver
200m Freestyle	2013	World Championships	Montreal	2:00.57	Gold
200m Freestyle	2014	Commonwealth Games	Sochi	1:57.89	Gold
200m Freestyle	2014	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Sochi	1:59.09	Gold
50m Freestyle	2014	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Sochi	24.77	Gold
100m Freestyle	2014	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Sochi	54.69	Gold
100m Backstroke	2014	Para Pan Pacific Championships	Sochi	1:07.18	Bronze
100m Freestyle	2015	Australian Swimming Championships	Sydney	53.53	Gold
200m Freestyle	2015	Australian Swimming Championships	Sydney	1:59.32	Gold
200m Freestyle	2016	Paralympics	Rio de Janeiro	1:56.69	Bronze

In reflection on preparing for Rio, Fox states "I have done the training and I feel ready to get back into the pool and in my crown back, I am focused on doing my best at Rio and I've got an extremely solid training schedule, early nights and very little socializing."^[24]

References

• Sports portal

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4. Blair, Haydn (October 9, 2016). Interview with Haydn Blair. Redland City. Cleveland.
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6. Alston, Josh (17 April 2012). "Daniel Fox breaks two swimming world records on way to Games | News, events and sport for Brisbane East". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
7. "Cowdrey, Leek finish with world records". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 21 August 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
8. Kay, Ross (9 August 2012). "Who are our Queensland Paralympians?". ABC Wide Bay Qld - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
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11. Brittain, Ian (2014). From Stoke Mandeville to Sochi: A History of the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. Common Ground Publishing. pp. 265–300.
12. "Golden start for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
13. "Para gold for Daniel Fox in Glasgow". Ninemsn, 27 July 2014. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
14. "Daniel Fox results". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
15. "Men's 200m Freestyle - S14 Final". Rio2016 Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016.
16. "Daniel Fox". Rio Paralympics Official site. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
17. "Daniel Fox". Queensland Academy of Sport website. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
18. "2011 Arafura Games". Retrieved 12 December 2017.
19. "Australia Fares Well at Can-Am Swimming Open". IPC. 12 December 2011. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
20. "Annual Report 2011-2012". Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
21. "Annual Report Swimming 2014-2015". Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
22. "Annual Report Swimming 2009-2010". Archived from the original on 17 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
23. "Montreal Paralympic Results". Retrieved 12 December 2017.
24. Kerr, Judith. "Cleveland Swimmer Daniel Fox set for Rio Paralympics". Local News. Redland City Bulletin. Retrieved 23 October 2016.

External links

• Daniel Fox at the International Paralympic Committee
• Daniel Fox at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
• Daniel Fox at Paralympics Australia
• Daniel Fox at Swimming Australia (archived) (2016-10-17)