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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Judith Young
- Judith Joan Young (born 16 January 1966) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.
- She was born in Melbourne.
- Young, who has a birth defect in her arm, was one of the first people to receive an Australian Institute of Sport Athletes with a Disability residential scholarship, from 1993 to 1996.
- She was coached by Peter Freney with assistance from Jim Fowlie.At the 1988 Seoul Games, she won two gold medals in the Women’s 100 m Backstroke A8 and Women’s 400 m Freestyle A8 events, and three silver medals in the Women’s 100 m Butterfly L6, Women’s 100 m Breaststroke A8 and Women’s 200 m Individual Medley L6 events.
- At the Games, Young faced a protest over her below-the-elbow amputee classification because of the degree of use she received from her arm with the birth defect.
- The appeal was successful and Young was classified as les autres.
- She was allowed to keep her three A8 medals, but the two world records set were nullified.Young won two gold medals, three silver medals, and a bronze medal at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, the Netherlands.At the 1992 Barcelona Games, Young won a silver medal in the Women’s 50 m Freestyle S10 event and two bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S10 and Women's 200 Individual Medley SM10 events.
- She competed in four other events.
- At the 1996 Atlanta Games, she won three silver medals in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB10, Women's 100 m Butterfly S10 and Women's 50 m Freestyle S10 events and a bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S10 event.
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