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Nationality | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | November 15, 1995 Baltimore, Maryland |
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ian Jaryd Silverman (born 1995) is an American swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland. He has mild cerebral palsy and won a gold medal in the S10 400m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. At the Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships in 2014, Silverman broke the S10 world record in the event, with a time of 4:03.57 As of August 2015[update], Silverman also holds para-swimming world records in the 800m and 1500m freestyle and the 400m Individual Medley.
Silverman now swims at NCAA Division I college University of Southern California.
Silverman did not compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, after a classification review deemed him not impaired enough to compete in his preferred events.