Logan Powell

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Logan Powell
Personal information
Full name Logan Powell
Nationality  Australia
Born (1999-01-25) 25 January 1999 (age 25)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Classifications S10

Logan Powell is an Australian Paralympic amputee swimmer. He has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [1]

Personal

Powell was born on 25 January 1999.[2] He lost his lower right leg in a ride-on lawn mower accident when he was just 18 months old. [2] He has to get a new prosthetic leg every six months whilst growing. [3] Powell grew up in Mackay, Queensland. [3]

Career

Powell started swimming at the age of nine due to the encouragement of his mother who wanted him to build up upper body strength and stay healthy. [2] He swam with Pat Wright's Swim Coach in Mackay. [3] At the 2013 Australian School Championships in Adelaide, he was awarded the Multi-Class Swimmer of the Meet.[4] In 2013, he broke Brenden Hall's state and schools' age records.[3] At the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships, he made the finals the 200m Freestyle, 50m Backstroke and 100m Backstroke Multi-class events. He moved from Mackay to train with Jan Cameron at the Paralympic high performance program at the University of the Sunshine Coast.[2]

In para-athletics, he has set national junior records in 100m, 200m, discus and long jump. [4]


References

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