Tanya Huebner is an Australian swimmer. She has represented Australia at the 2012 London and the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Huebner | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Tanya Huebner | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB5, SM6 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Swimming
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Huebner is an S6 classified swimmer.[2][3] She is a member of Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club.[4]
She started swimming when she was extraordinarily young.[5] In 2008, Huebner competed in Rock2Ramp.[6] That year, she also competed in the Club-to-Club swim from Edithvale Life Saving Club to Aspendale Life Saving Club.[7] In 2010, she woke up at 4:30am daily in order to train.[8][9] She competed in the 2010 International Paralympic Committee swimming world championships.[10] She took up a swimming scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in July 2011.[11] She swam for Bayside at the 2011 Australian Open Championships.[12] She competed in the 2011 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in the 200 metres individual medley SM6 event, where she finished first with a time of 3:31:36.[3] In 2011, she also competed at the Can-Am Championships in California.[13] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming in the 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke, 50m Butterfly and 200m Individual Medley events.[2][14] The Games were her first.[11]
At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, she won gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34pt as a heat swimmer, silver medal in the 4 × 100-metre Medley Relay 34pts as a heat swimmer, fourth in the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6, seventh in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre freestyle relay 20pts, ninth in the Women's 50m Butterfly S6 and thirteenth in the Women's 50-metre Freestyle S6.[15]
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she competed and placed fifth in her heat for 50-metre butterfly S6 and didn't qualify for the finals.[16] She was fifth in the finals of the 100-metre Breaststroke SB6,[17] and placed sixth in the Mixed 4 x 50-metre Freestyle Relay 20 points alongside Rachael Watson, Tiffany Thomas Kane, Ahmed Kelly and Matthew Haanappel.[18]
References
edit- ^ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Tanya Huebner". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Más oro para Juan Ignacio" (in Spanish). Oem.com.mx. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Fourteen Victorians selected for 2014 Australian Teams". Swimming Victoria. 7 April 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2014.
- ^ "Lapping up the support — PARALYMPIC SWIMMER HAS HER OWN SCHOOL CHEER SQUAD — SWIMMING". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 16 July 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Rock2Ramp Rock 2 Ramp". Geelong Advertiser. Australia. 29 December 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Choppy conditions for club to club Swimming". Leader - Mordialloc Chelsea News. Melbourne, Australia. 20 February 2008. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "International stage next step". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "International stage the next step". Leader — Mordialloc Chelsea News. Melbourne, Australia. 7 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Canberra Times: ACT pair rake in the gold at titles". The Canberra Times. Australia. 21 August 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ a b "SPORT — Swimming for gold". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 16 July 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Capomolla best — of Bayside crew". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 9 May 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Canberra Call - - Country Sport". The Sunday Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 18 December 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Paralympics Team List". BigPond Sport. 6 January 2012. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships" (PDF). paralympic.org. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ^ "Tanya Huebner". Rio Paralympics Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Tanya Huebner". Rio Paralympics Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Tanya Huebner - Mixed Relay". Rio Paralympi6cs Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
External links
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- Tanya Huebner at Paralympics Australia
- Tanya Huebner at the International Paralympic Committee
- Tanya Huebner at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
