Matt Levy
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| Full name | Matthew John Levy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matthew John "Matt" Levy, OAM (born 11 January 1987) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.
Personal
Levy has cerebral palsy and a vision impairment due to being born 15 weeks premature.[1][2] He attended St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney.[3] He works at St.George Bank and lives in Sydney.[1]
Competitive career
Levy first competed for Australia in 2003; that year, he broke the 200 m freestyle short course world record.[1] He competed but did not win any medals at the 2004 Athens Games.[4] He competed at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships and won four silver and four bronze medals at the 2007 Telstra Short Course Championships.[1] At the 2008 Beijing Games, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay 34 pts event.[4] At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, he won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event, two silver medals in the 100 m breaststroke and 100 m freestyle events, and two bronze medals in the 50 m butterfly and 200 m individual medley events. Levy is classified as an S8 swimmer and he trains at the Australian Institute of Sport.[5]
At the 2012 London Paralympics he won five medals: a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle S7, and three bronze medals in the 200 m individual medley SM7, 100 m breaststroke SB7 and 4×100 m medley relay.[6] He also participated in the 400 m freestyle S7, 50 m butterfly S7 and 50 m freestyle S7 events.[6]
Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, he won two gold medals in the 200 m individual medley S7 and 4×100 m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle S7.[7][8]
He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[2]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Matt Levy". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
- ↑ Bannister, Laura (7 September 2009). "Water Boys: St Andrew's Victories Make a Splash". St Andrew's Cathedral School. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ↑ Wake 2010, p. 4
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Matthew Levy's profile on paralympic.org. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
- ↑ "Men's relay team back it up in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 16 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ↑ "Twenty-seven medals for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
Bibliography
- Wake, Rebekka (September 2010). "Golden Glow Over Australian Swimming". Australian Paralympian (Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee) 2.