Tanya Huebner
 2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Huebner | ||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Tanya Huebner | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1978 | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly, medley | |||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB5, SM6 | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Melbourne Vicentre | |||||||||||||||
| Coach | Brad Harris | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tanya Huebner (born 25 August 1978) is an Australian swimmer. She has represented Australia at the 2012 London and the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]At the 2013 World Dwarf Games she competed in both swimming and athletics, winning gold medals in both sports.[2][3] [4]
Personal
Huebner was born on 25 August 1978.[5] She is from Victoria.[6] She has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism.[7] She is a teacher. In July 2011, she took a leave of absence from her job in order to train full-time for the Paralympics.[8] She is a qualified primary school teacher.[9]
Swimming
Huebner is an S6 classified swimmer.[5][10] She is a member of Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club.[11]
She started swimming when she was extraordinarily young.[12] In 2008, Huebner competed in Rock2Ramp.[13] That year, she also competed in the Club-to-Club swim from Edithvale Life Saving Club to Aspendale Life Saving Club.[14] In 2010, she woke up at 4:30am daily in order to train.[7][15] She competed in the 2010 International Paralympic Committee swimming world championships.[16] She took up a swimming scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in July 2011.[8] She swum for Bayside at the 2011 Australian Open Championships.[17] 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.[10] In 2011, she also competed at the Can-Am Championships in California.[18] 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.[5][19] The Games were her first.[8]
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 metree Freestyle S6.[20]
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.[21] She was fifth in the finals of the 100 metre Breaststroke SB6,[22] 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.[23]
References
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- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ "2013 World Dwarf Games - 8/4/2013 - Swimming Results" (PDF). 2013 World Dwarf Games. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ "World Dwarf Games Track and Field - 8/3/2013" (PDF). 2013 World Dwarf Games. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ↑ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Tanya Huebner". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ↑ "Hot shots primed for national titles". Hobart Mercury. Australia. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- 1 2 "International stage next step". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 12 April 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- 1 2 3 "SPORT — Swimming for gold". Leader — Sandringham Brighton Advertiser. Melbourne, Australia. 16 July 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ "Tanya Huebner". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
- 1 2 "Más oro para Juan Ignacio" (in Spanish). Oem.com.mx. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ "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 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". Canberra Times. Australia. 21 August 2010. 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". Sunday Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 18 December 2011. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ↑ "Paralympics Team List". BigPond Sport. 2012-01-06. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
- ↑ "Tanya Huebner results". Glasgow 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships.
- ↑ "Tanya Huebner". Rio Paralympics Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ "Tanya Huebner". Rio Paralympics Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ "Tanya Huebner - Mixed Relay". Rio Paralympi6cs Official Results. Rio Paralympics 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.