Sarah Rose in November 2012
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| Full name | Sarah Rose | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1986-02-18) 18 February 1986 (age 38) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S8, SB7, SM8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Sarah Rose (born 18 February 1986) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was born in Sydney with dwarfism.[1][2] At the 2004 Athens Games, she competed in four events and won a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 event.[3] At the 2008 Beijing Games she competed in four events.
At the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, she won a silver medal in the Women's 50m Butterfly S6.[2]
In 2012, she made a comeback after a serious back injury and achieved her aim of selection for the Australian team to represent at the 2012 London Games.[4][5]
She was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder from 2004 to 2009.[6] She works as an administrative assistant for The House with No Steps, an organisation set up to help the disabled.[2]
In 2016, she was awarded Speedo Services to the Australian Swim Team at the Swimming Australia Awards.[7]
