Matthew Haanappel
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Haanappel
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| Full name | Matthew Anthony Haanappel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Pineapple | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born |
21 May 1994 Wantirna, Victoria, Australia |
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| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, Backstroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB6, SM6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ringwood Swimming Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of the Sunshine Coast | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew "Matt" Anthony Haanappel, OAM (born 21 May 1994) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He was born in Wantirna, Victoria and resides in the far eastern suburbs of Melbourne. He has cerebral palsy right hemiplegia. Haanappel represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships and the 2014 Para Pan Pacific Championships. He represents the Ringwood Swimming Club when competing domestically in Australia. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Haanappel was born on 21 May 1994 in Wantirna, Victoria. He resides as of 2015 in Croydon Hills, Victoria.
Diagnosed at four months of age, Matthew has Cerebral Palsy Right Hemiplegia as a result of a prenatal stroke at around 20 weeks of pregnancy, he was born full term. His disability means it takes him extra effort to do things like tie his shoes, as his fine motor skills and dexterity are severely reduced from the spasticity in his right hand.
Haanappel, along with his brother were enrolled in learn to swim from an early age. His parents said that if they did not learn how to swim then they would not be allowed to go to the beach, or be on the family boat of which they both spent a lot of their childhood on.
Haanappel learned to swim in a specialised disability learn to swim program in Kilsyth, Victoria.
Haanappel comes from a family with a strong sporting background, his father, Shane is an Australian basketball representative, his first cousin is retired Australian cyclist Cadel Evans and his brother, Adam Haanappel is an international tennis player. Haanappel is also a distant relative of Dutch Olympic figure skater Joan Haanappel.
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