Rowan Crothers
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait
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| Full name | Rowan Crothers | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Magnet | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia
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24 October 1997 Gosford, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Height | 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Yeronga Park | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Rob Van Der Zant | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rowan Crothers (born 24 October 1997) is an Australian freestyle swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Rowan Crothers was born 15 weeks prematurely on 24 October 1997 in Gosford on the New South Wales Central Coast. His prematurity resulted in him developing Cerebral Palsy and Chronic Lung Disease. He has mild spastic diplegia and swims with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Classifications S10, SB9, SM10. He is currently a member of Yeronga Park Swim Club and is trained by Rick Van Der Zant. Rowan is a member of the integrated Australian Swim Team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Australian Para Swim Team for the 2014 ParaPanPacs. He is also a serving youth ambassador for the Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland. Rowan currently lives in Moorooka on the south side of Brisbane and is studying a Bachelor of Public Relations & Communications at Griffith University.
Crothers made his international swimming debut as a 13-year-old at the 2011 Arafura Games where he claimed a bronze medal in the Men's 400m MC freestyle and broke 4 Australian National Age Records in the 50m, 100m, 200m and 400m freestyle events in the S9 classification. He has since gone on to claim S9 Australian National Age Records in freestyle as a 13, 14, 15 and 16 year old in the 50m, 100m, 200m, and the 400m freestyle. At the 2013 Australian Short Course Championships Rowan broke the men's S9 World Record for the 400 metre SC freestyle. He then followed this up at the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships by breaking World Records in the S9 100m freestyle twice, and then breaking the S9 200m freestyle WR. As well as setting these new records, Rowan qualified for the 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Swim Team and the 2014 Para Pan Pacs Team. Rowan's Cerebral Palsy affects the efficiency of his kick and he has worked consistently on perfecting a propulsion style to make the most out of the leg strength and coordination he has.
Crothers competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. He competed in four events and qualified for the finals in each. He placed fifth in the Men's 4 x 100m Freestyle (34 points), sixth in Men's 400m Freestyle S10, fifth in Men's 100m Freestyle S10 and sixth in Men's 50m Freestyle S10.
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