Tiffany Thomas Kane
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait
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| Full name | Tiffany Thomas Kane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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| Born | 9 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S6, SB6, SM6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ravenswood Swimming Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Lach Falvey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Tiffany Thomas Kane OAM (born 9 August 2001) is a Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, winning a gold and three bronze medals.
Thomas Kane was born on 9 August 2001 with hypochondroplasia and is of short stature. She attends Ravenswood School for Girls in Sydney, New South Wales.
Thomas Kane took up swimming at the age of 3. She is a S6 swimmer. In 2015, she trains under Lach Falvey at Ravenswood Swim Club, the same club as dual world champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen. She was the youngest Australian swimmer selected to compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland after breaking world records at the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships. At the age of 13, at 2015 IPC Swimming Championships, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100m breaststroke SB6 in a world record time of 1:34.95, silver medal in the Women's 50 m Butterfly S6 and bronze medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S6 and Women's 100 m Freestyle S6. She finished fifth in the Women's 100m Backstroke S6 and seventh in the Mixed 4x50m Freestyle Relay 20pts. She was awarded Swimming Australia's 2015 AIS Discovery of the Year Award. In 2015, she is a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, she set a world record of 43.06in Women's S6 in winning the Women’s 50 breast multi-class event.
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