Ashley Van Rijswijk
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 31 August 2000 (age 23) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Paralympic swimming |
| Disability class | S14, SB14, SM14 |
| Club | Wagga Wagga Swim Club |
| Coached by | Gennadiy Labara |
Ashley van Rijswijk (born 31 August 2000) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[1]
Personal[edit]
Ashley van Rijswijk is from Tumut, New South Wales and in 2021 is based in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.[2] She attended Gadara School in Tumut.
Swimming career[edit]
van Rijswijk is classified as a S14 swimmer. In October 2019, she was sidelined with a painful neck injury. “I dived into a pool and had muscle and ligament damage in my C3, 4 and 5 but mainly soft tissue damage.” [3] At the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials, she swam 1:17.36 in the 100m breaststroke heats to qualify fastest for the final but ended up runner up with a time of 1:17.73. Despite missing the Tokyo 2021 qualifying time by a mere 11 hundredths of a second, she was selected for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.[4]
Her main events are the 100m Breastroke SB14 and the 200m individual medley SM14.
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, van Rijswijk qualified for the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14 but only manage fifth place. She swam in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SM14 but did not advance to the final.[5]
In 2021, she is a Southern Sports Academy scholarship athlete.
References[edit]
- ^ "Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 16 June 2021. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ "Ashley Off to the Paralympics". Southern Sports Academy. Archived from the original on 4 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Records keep crumbling on long road to Tokyo". Timut and Adelong Times. 12 September 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Ashley Van Rijswijk qualifies for Tokyo 2021 Paralympics". Tumuit and Adelong Times. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ "Ashley Van Rijswijk". Tokyo Paralympics Official Results. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
External links[edit]
- Ashley Van Rijswijk at Paralympics Australia
- Ashley Van Rijswijk at Swimming Australia (archived)
- Living people
- Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors
- Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia
- S14-classified para swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 2000 births
- Australian female breaststroke swimmers
- Australian female medley swimmers
- 21st-century Australian women
- People from Tumut
- Sportswomen from New South Wales