Toni Shaw

Toni Shaw

Shaw at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships
Personal information
Full name	Toni Stephanie Shaw
National team	United Kingdom  Scotland
Born	(2003-08-05) 5 August 2003 (age 21) Aberdeen, Scotland
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle
Club	University of Stirling
Medal record Women's paralympic swimming Representing  Great Britain Summer Paralympics 2020 Tokyo 400 m freestyle S9 World Championships 2019 London 4x100m medley 34pts 2019 London 4x100m freestyle 34pts 2022 Madeira 400 m freestyle S9 2019 London 400 m freestyle S9 2019 London 100 m butterfly S9 2019 London 100 m freestyle S9 2019 London 100 m medley 2022 Madeira 100 m butterfly S9 2023 Manchester 400 m freestyle S9 European Championships 2018 Dublin 400 m freestyle S9 2018 Dublin 4x100m medley 34pts 2018 Dublin 200 m medley SM9 2018 Dublin 100 m butterfly S9 2018 Dublin 100 m backstroke S9 Representing  Scotland Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 100 m freestyle S9

Toni Stephanie Shaw (born 5 August 2003) is a British Paralympic swimmer. In 2019 she set the world record time for the S9 200m butterfly, and was also part of the team that set a new world record for the 4 × 100 m medley relay. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal in the women's 400 metre freestyle S9 event and later went on to win gold at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, becoming the World Champion.[1][2] She is a three-time World Champion and two-time European Champion.

Personal life and career

Shaw's right arm never fully formed and she was born without her right hand.[3][4] From 2019 Shaw started using a carbon fibre prosthetic for her arm that with the use of different attachments enabled her to undertake upper-body exercises such as press-ups and weight training that benefit swimmers but had previously not been possible for her.[5]

Shaw was born on 5 August 2003[2] and took swimming lessons from the age of eight.[6] At the age of 14, she held 14 Scottish national swimming records in the S9 and S10 classifications[7] and was selected to compete for Team Scotland at the 2018 Commonwealth Games[8] where she finished 5th in both the Women's S9 100m Backstroke[9] and Women's 100-metre freestyle S9; 6th in the Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10, and seventh in the Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9.[2]

She set a new world record time of 2.30.46 in the S9 200m butterfly at the Para-swimming World Series in Berlin in 2019[10] at the age of 15,[11] and won six medals at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships,[2] including gold medals in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.[12][13] The 4 × 100 m medley relay team, comprising Alice Tai, Brock Whiston, Shaw and Stephanie Millward beat the second-placed United States team by 22 seconds and set a new world record of 4.36.31.[12]

Shaw was coached by the Aberdeen University performance swimming coach Gregor McMillan[6] and trained at Aberdeen Sports Village Aquatics Centre.[7] She was one of ten nominees for BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2019.[14] Shaw currently Swims for University of Stirling while doing an undergraduate degree in Business.[15]

In June 2022, Shaw won Bronze in the Women's 100m Butterfly S9 at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships in Funchal, Madeira, qualifying first her heat for the final.[16] She also came 5th in the SM9 200m Individual Medley.[16] On 16 June, Shaw won gold in the women's 400 metre freestyle S9,and became the World Champion.

On the first day of swimming competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England Shaw won bronze in the S9 100m Freestyle at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in a time of 1:03.75,finishing one one-hundredth of a second behind Australia's Emily Beecroft.[17]

Record in major competitions

2018 Commonwealth Games[2]

• 5th – Women's S9 100m Backstroke
• 5th – Women's 100-metre freestyle S9
• 6th – Women's 200-metre individual medley SM10
• 7th – Women's 100-metre breaststroke SB9

2018 World Para Swimming European Championships

• 1st –Women's 400 metres freestyle
• 1st – Women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay
• 2nd – Women's 200 metres individual medley
• 2nd – Women's 100 metres butterfly
• 3rd – Women's 100 metres backstroke

2019 World Para Swimming Championships[2]

• 5th – Women's S9 50m Freestyle
• 3rd – Women's S9 100m Freestyle
• 2nd – Women's S9 400m Freestyle
• 2nd – Women's S9 100m Butterfly
• 3rd – Women's S9 200m Individual Medley
• 1st – Women's 34pt 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
• 1st – Women's 34pt 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

2022 World Para Swimming Championships

• 4th – Women's S9 100m Freestyle
• 4th – Women's S9 200m Individual Medley
• 3rd – Women's S9 100m Butterfly
• 1st – Women's S9 400m Freestyle

2022 Commonwealth Games

• 3rd-Women's S9 100m Freestyle

References

1. "Swimming – Final Results". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
2. "Toni Shaw". britishswimming.org. British Swimming. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
3. "Year of Young People 2018: Toni Shaw". scottishswimming.com. Scottish Swimming. 30 June 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
4. "Reach Member Stories". reach.org.uk. Reach Charity Ltd. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
5. "Making waves: Toni Shaw eyes Tokyo 2020 thanks to state-of-the-art prosthetic". sportfirst.sportscotland.org.uk. Sport Scotland. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
6. Cryle, Ryan (26 December 2019). "Shaw's best year yet as Aberdeen swimmer looks for Tokyo Paralympics medals". Evening Express. Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
7. Cryle, Ryan (18 January 2018). "Commonwealth Games will make up for my world champs disappointment, says city's young swimmer Toni, 14". Evening Express. Aberdeen. Archived from the original on 27 December 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
8. "Gold Coast 2018: 14-year-old Toni Shaw selected by Team Scotland". BBC Sport. 17 January 2018. Archived from the original on 22 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
9. "Results – Women's S9 100m Backstroke Final". gc2018.com. Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
10. "Para-swimming World Series: Alice Tai twice breaks S8 50m butterfly world record". BBC Sport. 9 June 2019. Archived from the original on 13 June 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
11. Cryle, Ryan (19 July 2019). "Aberdeen's Sports Awards 2019: Swimmer Toni delighted to be nominated for another major prize". Evening Express. Aberdeen. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
12. Hudson, Elizabeth (13 September 2019). "Alice Tai: Briton wins sixth gold as schedule taking toll at World Para-swimming Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
13. Hudson, Elizabeth (15 September 2019). "Para-swimming World Championships: GB end Para-swimming Worlds with 19 golds". BBC Sport. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
14. "Young Sports Personality of the Year 2019: Who are the nominees?". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
15. "Shaw ready for business". British Swimming. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
16. "Madeira 2022_Schedule and Results". International Paralympic Committee.
17. Durent, Jamie (29 July 2022). "Aberdeen's Toni Shaw 'super happy' after securing Commonwealth Games bronze for Scotland in S9 100m freestyle". The Press and Journal.

External links

• Toni Shaw at British Swimming
• Toni Shaw at ParalympicsGB
• Toni Shaw at the International Paralympic Committee
• Toni Shaw at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
• Toni Shaw at Team Scotland
• Toni Shaw at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games