Monique Murphy
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Monique Murphy
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 Australia
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9 April 1994 Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Disability | Amputee | ||||||||||||
| Disability class | S10 | ||||||||||||
| Club | Vicentre | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Alex Hirschauer | ||||||||||||
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Monique Murphy (born 9 April 1994) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics where she won a silver medal.
Murphy was born on 9 April 1994 in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2014, Murphy fell 20m from a fifth story balcony which left her in a coma. Murphy recalls her injuries when she woke, "I woke up in hospital with a broken jaw in two places, a cut to my neck close to the main artery and windpipe, a broken left collarbone, a tear in my triceps tendon, three broken ribs and a tibial plateau fracture." Unfortunately, Murphy’s injuries were too severe for recovery, which led to the amputation of her right leg below the knee. In 2016, she is studying a Bachelor of Social Work with honours at RMIT. She also volunteers with St Vincent de Paul with their youth program. Murphy now resides on the Gold Coast training under coach Glenn Baker
Murphy started swimming at a young age with the Tuggeranong Vikings Swim Club; swimming as an abled-bodied swimmer. Since the accident in 2014, Murphy was determined to get back in the pool and started training at 2014 at Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club in Melbourne. She now swims under the classification of S10 and was picked to travel with 30 other athletes to Glasgow for the IPC World Championships. Here, she placed 6th and 7th in the Women’s 400m Freestyle (S10) and Women’s 100m Butterfly (S10) respectively.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she competed in four events. Murphy qualified for the final in the Women's 400m S10 and won a silver medal. She also competed in the following events but didn't progress to the finals: Women's 50m Freestyle S10, Women's 100m Freestyle S10 and Women's 100m Backstroke S10.
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