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Danielle Watts
British Paralympic swimmer
Danielle Watts (born 13 October 1980) is a British Paralympic swimmer who represented Great Britain at three Paralympic Games from 2000 to 2008 winning three medals. She is classified as an S1 category swimmer.
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At the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Watts competed in the women's 50 and 100 m freestyle and 50 m backstroke (all S2 category). She repeated these events at the 2004 Games in Athens, this time winning silver in the 100 m freestyle (S2) and bronze in both the 50 m freestyle (S2) and 50 m backstroke (S2).
She swam in two events at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, finishing 7th in the 50 m backstroke (S2) and 13th in the 50 m freestyle (S3).
She is the current world record holder for the S1 category over 50, 100, and 200 m freestyle and 100 m backstroke.
In 2003, she was awarded Swimming World Magazine's Swimming World's World Disabled Swimmers of the Year.
Danielle married Jamie Swann in 2011 and changed her own surname to Swann. She is a Christian and, in 2011, appeared on BBC News talking about unsuitable housing conditions for disabled people.[1]