1. Ahmed Kelly was born on 18 November 1991 and is an Iraqi-born Australian Paralympic swimmer.
23 Facts About Ahmed Kelly
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Ahmed Kelly has competed at four Paralympics Games, winning two silver medals.
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Ahmed Kelly's treatment involved having parts of his legs removed that were deficient, and then being fitted with prosthesis.
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Ahmed Kelly was featured on the ABC's "Race to London".
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Ahmed Kelly has Bangladeshi-born twin sisters who were conjoined at birth.
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Ahmed Kelly played Australian rules football for a team in Kilmore, Victoria.
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Ahmed Kelly is an S4, SB3, SM4 classified swimmer.
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Ahmed Kelly has been coached by Brad Harris, Yuriy Vdovychenko and in 2024 by Alex Hirschauer.
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Ahmed Kelly has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.
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Ahmed Kelly started swimming in 2008, after making a switch from Australian rules football.
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Ahmed Kelly first represented Australia in 2009 at the Darwin, Northern Territory hosted Oceania Paralympic Championships.
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Ahmed Kelly competed in the 2010 Australian National Championships, finishing first in the 100 metre breaststroke event in world record time.
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Ahmed Kelly repeated this feat in 2011 where he again set a world record.
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Ahmed Kelly represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in four events.
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Ahmed Kelly competed in four events at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
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Ahmed Kelly placed seventh in Men's 50m Breaststroke SB3 and sixth in Mixed 4 x 50m Freestyle Relay.
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Ahmed Kelly competed in Men's 50m Backstroke S3 and Men's 150m Individual Medley SM4 but didn't progress to the finals.
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At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, London, Ahmed Kelly won the silver medal in the Men's 150m Individual Medley SM3.
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Ahmed Kelly won his first Paralympic medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, by winning the silver medal in the Men's 150 m individual medley SM3 with a time of 3:02.23, just over 5 seconds slower than the gold medal winner Jesus Hernandez Hernandez of Mexico.
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Ahmed Kelly competed in the Men's 50 m breaststroke SB3 final and finished seventh.
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Ahmed Kelly competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, France - his fourth Summer Paralympics.
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Ahmed Kelly was initially disqualified after performing butterfly instead of front crawl during the freestyle leg of the Men's 150m medley SM3 heat, but was reinstated after a protest by the Australian delegation was upheld, as any stroke other than breaststroke or backstroke is permitted in the freestyle leg.
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Ahmed Kelly would go on to claim Silver in the final.