Jacqueline Freney

Jacqueline Freney

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Freney
Personal information
Full name	Jacqueline Rose Freney
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1992-06-06) 6 June 1992 (age 24) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke, Freestyle, Medley
Classifications	S7, SB7, SM7
Club	Richmond Valley
Coach	Michael Freney
Medal record Women's paralympic swimming Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 2012 London 50 m freestyle S7 2012 London 100 m freestyle S7 2012 London 400 m freestyle S7 2012 London 100 m backstroke S7 2012 London 50 m butterfly S7 2012 London 200 m medley SM7 2012 London 4×100 m freestyle 2012 London 4×100 m medley 2008 Beijing 50 m freestyle S8 2008 Beijing 100 m freestyle S8 2008 Beijing 400 m freestyle S8 World Championships (LC) 2010 Eindhoven 100 m freestyle S8 2010 Eindhoven 400 m freestyle S8 World Championships (SC) 2009 Rio de Janeiro 100 m freestyle S8 2009 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle S8 2009 Rio de Janeiro 100 m backstroke S8 2009 Rio de Janeiro 100 m butterfly S8 2009 Rio de Janeiro 50 m freestyle S8 2009 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle relay 34 pts

Jacqueline Rose Freney OAM (born 6 June 1992) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2012 London Games, she broke Siobhan Paton's Australian record of six gold medals at a single Games by winning her seventh gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7. She finished the Games with eight gold medals, more than any other participant in the Games.

Jacqueline Rose Freney was born in Brisbane, Queensland with cerebral palsy. She won three bronze medals at the 2008 Beijing Games in the women's 100m freestyle S8 event, 400m freestyle S8 event and 50m freestyle S8 event. In 2012 at the London Paralympic Games she won gold medals in the women's 100m backstroke S7, women's 50m butterfly S7, 100m freestyle S7, 400m freestyle S7, 50m freestyle S7, 200m individual medley SM7 and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts. She broke Siobhan Paton's Australian record of six gold medals at a single Games by winning her seventh gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7. In breaking the record she said "Seven, I am in heaven". She finished the Games with eight gold medals, more than any other participant in the games.

Freney lives in Skenners Head, Ballina, New South Wales, and is coached by her father Michael. Her grandfather Peter Freney coached 2000 Sydney Games multiple gold medallist Siobhan Paton. In 2008, she was awarded an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship.

At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, she won silver medals in the women's 100m freestyle and 400m freestyle events S8 events. In 2011, a week before the Can-Am Swimming Open, Freney was reclassified from S8 to S7. At the 2011 Can-Am Swimming Open in La Mirada, she set a world record in the S7 400m freestyle event twice, once during the heats and again during the finals with a time of 4:59.95 on her way to winning a gold medal. At the Can-Am Swimming Open, she won two silver medals in the S7 50m and 100m freestyle events.