Jeremy McClure

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Jeremy McClure
File:260312 - Jeremy McClure - 3a - 2012 profile photo.jpg
Portrait of Australian Paralympic swimmer McClure in 2012
Personal information
Full name Jeremy McClure
Nationality  Australia
Born (1987-05-25) 25 May 1987 (age 37)
Perth, Western Australia
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly, medley
Classifications S12
Club Riverton Aquanauts
Coach Mel Tantrum

Jeremy McClure (born 25 May 1987) is an Australian swimmer, paratriathlete and motivational speaker. He competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008 Summer Paralympics and 2012 Summer Paralympics. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]

Personal

McClure was born on 25 May 1987 in Perth, Western Australia and is from Bull Creek, Western Australia.[2] He was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy when he was fifteen years old[3] and lost most of his sight.[4][5] He uses a guide dog[6] named Presley as he only has about two percent of available vision.[5] In 2006, he participated in the Commonwealth Games torch relay.[3] In 2010, he won a Pride of Australia award.[4] He works as a motivational speaker, and given a speeches to schools in Western Australia and to the West Coast Eagles.[3] As of 2016, he also works as a part-time remedial massage therapist.[2]

Swimming

McClure is an S12 classified swimmer,[2][7] and is a member of Riverton Aquanauts.[8] He started swimming in 2002[2] and competitively in May 2003.[3]

McClure competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, finishing sixth in the 100 metre backstroke. He competed at his second Paralympics in 2008, finishing seventh in the 100 metre backstroke.[3][4][5] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming.[7][9] Going into the 2012 Games, he was ranked fifth in the 100 metre backstroke event, fourth in the 50 metre breaststroke and third in the 50 metre backstroke event.[2] He did not medal at the 2012 Games and his best result was eighth in 100 metre backstroke [2][10]

File:060912 - Jeremy McClure - 3b - 2012 Summer Paralympics.JPG
McClure at the 2012 London Paralympics

At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, he set a new world record of 32.22 in the Men’s S11 50m backstroke.[1]

Paratriathlon

In 2011, McClure competed in his first triathlon when he took part in the Ironman 70.3 Busselton, finishing the event in 5:03:43.[11] He required sighted guides to assist him on the course. They were Stewart Collingwood for the 1.9 km swim, Frans Buissink for 90 km cycle component and Craig Andrew for the 21 km run. He participated in the event in order to raise money for Guide Dogs Western Australia.[5] His performance in the race earned him Triathlon Western Australia's Paul Goodwin Award.[12] He has also raced in a number of other triathlons, including Busselton 70.3 in 2012.

He qualified to represent Australia in the sprint-distance 2013 ITU Paratriathlon World Championships in London, where he placed 8th in the TRI6a classification for blind athletes.[13] In January 2014, he won the TRI6a class at the 2014 OTU Oceania Championships in Penrith.[14] Reclassified TRI6b, he placed second in the Elwood ITU World Paratriathlon event.[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Jeremy_McClure&oldid=722305297"