Sarah Paton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sarah Paton

Australian swimmer, Olympic athlete

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1986

Place of Birth: Nowra, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sarah Paton

  • Sarah Paton (born 28 October 1986) is an Australian former swimmer who specialized in long-distance freestyle events.
  • She is the sister of swimmer Siobhan Paton, who won six gold medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and holds 13 world records in S14 category (intellectual disability).
  • Paton is also a member of Telopea Swim Club, and is coached and trained by Mark Skimming. Paton qualified for the women's 800-metre freestyle at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA A-standard entry time of 8:34.70 from the Olympic trials in Sydney.
  • She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including former bronze medalist Jana Henke of Germany and top medal favorite Diana Munz of the United States.
  • Paton cruised to fourth place by five seconds behind Munz in 8:35.81, but missed the final by more than a second, as she placed ninth overall in the preliminaries.Shortly after the Olympics, Paton finished fourth behind her teammate Melissa Gorman, but dipped under 8:30 barrier in the same distance at the FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, with a time of 8:25.38.In 2005, Paton won her first ever individual career title in the 1500 m freestyle at the Australian long course championships in Sydney, in a qualifying entry time of 16:17.20.
  • Paton's effort and triumph from the trials moved her up to third in the world rankings for the said distance.
  • At the FINA World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Paton missed the final with a tenth-place finish in the 1500-metre freestyle, outside her entry time of 16:37.18. In 2006, Paton moved to England to train and take up an academic scholarship with a degree in sports performance at the University of Bath.
  • She also coaches with swimmer Aaron Moores, who later won a silver medal in the 100-metre backstroke (S14) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

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