Poppy Maskill
British Paralympic swimmer
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| Full name | Poppy Maskill | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (2005-03-22) 22 March 2005 (age 19) Alsager[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S14, SM14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | National Performance Centre, Manchester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poppy Maskill (born 22 March 2005)[2] is a British swimmer, who won gold medals in the 100 m butterfly S14 and the Mixed 4×100 m freestyle relay S14 at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris.
Life
Maskill was born in 2005 and aged nine she was the Middlewich Rose Queen.[3] In Madeira at the 2022 world championships she took bronze, silver and gold medal. In that years Commonwealth Games in Birmingham she came fourth. She trains near Manchester. Her gold medal at the 2024 Paralympics was especially noted as it was the first won by the British team. She beat Chan Yui-lam from Hong Kong and the bronze went to Valeriia Shabalina.[4]
Later in the same Paralympics she gained a silver medal in the 200m freestyle S14. She had been the fastest in the heats but she was beaten by Valeriia Shabalina.[5] Maskill was chosen as one of Great Britain's flagbearers for the closing ceremony alongside para-taekwondo competitor Matt Bush.[6]
References
- ^ "Poppy Maskill". Team England. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
- ^ "Poppy Maskill". Retrieved 29 August 2024.
- ^ "The former rose queen set for her Commonwealth Games debut". Northwich Guardian. 11 May 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ Grace, Liam (29 August 2024). "Poppy Maskill clinches Great Britain's first gold medal at Paralympics 2024". Metro. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Poppy Maskill wins another medal in the Paris Paralympic Games". Northwich Guardian. 31 August 2024. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
- ^ "Maskill and Bush to be GB's flagbearers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
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