Aurélie_Rivard

Aurélie Rivard

Aurélie Rivard

Canadian Paralympic swimmer

Aurélie Rivard (born May 14, 1996) is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer.[1] After winning three Paralympics gold medals, claiming a silver Paralympic medal and setting two World Records and a Paralympic Record at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Paraswimmer was named Canada's flag-bearer for the closing ceremony.[2]

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She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal.[3][4]

Career

A Quebecer, she is from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, where she trained at the Club de natation du Haut-Richelieu. In 2017 she moved to Montreal and began training with Canada's High Performance Center.[5] She took up competitive swimming in 2008; with an impairment in her left hand she competes in the S10, SB9 and SM10 disability classifications.[1] She currently holds three World Records in her category.

Rivard competed at the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships but did not win any medals. At the 2012 London Paralympics she entered six events[1] and won silver in the S10 400 m freestyle.[6] She won five medals at the 2013 World Championships including two silver, two bronze[1] and joint second place in the 200 m medley.[7] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she won bronze in the 200 m individual medley.[8]

In 2014 Swimming Canada named Rivard "Female Para-Swimmer of the Year".[9]

At the 2015 Parapan American Games in Toronto, Canada, Rivard, who was 19 at the time, became the most decorated female athlete of Parapan Am history, after winning seven medals, six of which were gold.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Infostrada Sports. "Biographies". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved December 14, 2014. (search for "Rivard")
  2. [2]
    "Meet Aurelie Rivard". CBC. September 18, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  3. [3]
    archyde (August 25, 2021). "Paralympic Games: a bitter-tasting bronze medal for Aurélie Rivard". Archyde. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Aurélie Rivard wins Canada's first swimming medal at the Tokyo Paralympics". Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Aurelie Rivard Named Swimming Canada's Para-Swimmer of the Year". swimmingworldmagazine.com. Sports Publications, Inc. November 29, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  6. [6]
    Canadian Press (September 5, 2012). "Canadian swimmers add to Paralympic medal haul". National Post. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Results: Women's 200m Individual Medley SM10 Final". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  8. [8]
    "Sophie Pascoe secures second Commonwealth gold at Glasgow 2014". International Paralympic Committee. August 30, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  9. [9]
    "Aurelie Rivard is Swimming Canada's 2014 Para-Swimmer of the Year". CBC News. November 28, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  10. [10]
    "Largest Ever Parapan Am Games Make History". Toronto 2015. August 15, 2015. Archived from the original on August 17, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2016.


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