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| Full name | Guy Harrison-Murray | |||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia/ United Kingdom | |||||||||||||
| Born | 17 April 1997 Bath, England | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||
| Classifications | S10, SB10, SM10 | |||||||||||||
| Club | Perth City | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Guy Harrison-Murray (born 17 April 1997) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]
Harrison-Murray was born on 17 April 1997 in Bath, England. [2] He was born with congenital bilateral talipes, a condition where his tendons on the inside of his leg are shortened, the bones have an unusual shape and the Achilles tendon is tightened. [3] In 2011, he moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia. [3] In January 2015, he was granted Australian citizenship that would allow him to compete for Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [3] He attended the International School of Western Australia. [4]
Harrison-Murray took up swimming at the age of three. [4] He is classified as an S10 swimmer. [2] He made his debut for Australia at the 2014 Para Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. [5] At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, he won a bronze medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points. [6] He finished fourth in the Men's 400m Freestyle S10, sixth in the Men's 100m Freestyle S10 and seventh in the Men's 50m Freestyle S10. [7]
In February 2014, he was a member of a team that won the Mixed Team category at the Rottnest Channel Swim. [8] In 2015, he was coached by Jan Cameron at the University of the Sunshine Coast. [9] Previously, he was coached by Ian Mills at the Perth City Swim Club. [8]
In 2016, he competed in three events at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Harrison-Murray finished eighth in Men's 400m Freestyle S10, seventh in Men's 50m Freestyle S10 but didn't progress to the finals in Men's 100m Freestyle S10. [10]
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