Alexander Tuckfield

Alexander Tuckfield
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born5 November 2004 (2004-11-05) (age 20)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClassificationsS10, SB9, SM10
ClubAquablitz Toongabbie
CoachGavin Stewart
Medal record
Paralympic swimming
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 400 m freestyle S9

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

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

  1. ^ "Alexander Tuckfield | Swimming Australia". swimming.org.au. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ "Alexander Tuckfield". Inostrada IPC. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  4. ^ "2020 Swimming Australia Virtual Championships". Swim Swam. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Eight Para swimmers claim Tokyo tickets at trials/". NSWIS. 17 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
  6. ^ "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.