Ruby Storm

Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003)[1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, winning a bronze medal, and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a silver and bronze medal.[2]

Ruby Storm
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2003-11-18) 18 November 2003
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportParalympic swimming
Disability classS14, SB14, SM14
ClubUSC Spartans
Coached byNathan Doyle
Medal record
Paralympic swimming
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tokyo100 m butterfly S14
World Para Swimming Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 LondonMixed 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay S14
Silver medal – second place2022 MadeiraMixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14
Silver medal – second place2023 ManchesterMixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14

Personal

Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up in Traralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.[3]

Swimming career

As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister.[4] She is classified as an S14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event.[4] At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, London, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14.[1]

At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Storm teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14.[5] They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record.[6] She also won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower that Valeriia Shabalina of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another Australian Paige Leonhardt. She made three other individual finals.[7]

Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira.[8] She did not medal in three other events.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished 6th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S14.[9]

Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2021, is coached by Nathan Doyle at USC Spartans.

Recognition
  • 2018 – Junior Annual Gippstar Winner[10]

References
  1. "Ruby Storm". 2019 World Para Swimming Championships website. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  2. "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
  3. Media Guide Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games (PDF). Sydney: Paralympics Australia. 2021. p. 34.
  4. "Ruby ready to take Pan Pacifics by Storm". Latrobe Valley Express. 23 July 2018. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  5. "Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021". The Roar. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  6. "New Trio Of Dolphins Completes Prestigious Commonwealth Games Pod". Commonwealth Games Australia. 7 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  7. "Ruby Storm Results". Tokyo Paralympics Official Results. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  8. "Grant Patterson". 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  9. "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  10. "Junior Annual Gippstar Winners". Gippsland Sports Academy. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
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