Hannah Russell

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Career history

Russell was born in Ottershaw, Surrey, in 1992. Russell, who has a visual impairment, began swimming at the age of five, first joining Woking Swimming Club before moving to Guildford City Swimming Club at the age of 12. She studied at Gordon's School in West End, Surrey, before moving to Kelly College in Tavistock. In 2010, she was discovered through the 'Playground to Podium' project, a British scheme for spotting sporting talent in young people with a disability. She appeared in Berlin as S12 in 2011. In the 100 m backstroke and bronze butterfly, she earned two medals, silver, and bronze. She won gold and silver in the 400 m freestyle and bronze in the 2012 British Championships, winning two medals. Russell set a new European record in the S12 class 100 meters backstroke in the British Championship at 1:09.52. She broke two S12 world records in the 400 m freestyle and the 100 m backstroke later this month, at the Nationwide Junior and Youth Swimming Championships in Sheffield.

Russell's achievements were good enough to make the Great Britain swimming team for the 2012 Games in London despite claiming that she was aiming for qualifying for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio. She was one of the team's youngest participants at 16 years old, and she was active in five S12 competitions; the 50 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, 100 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, and 100 m butterfly. She set a new personal record of 4:38.60 in her first event, earning her her first paralympic medal. She came in second place behind Oxana Savchenko of Russia in 0.71 seconds. In the 100 m butterfly, she captured her second medal of the Games, a bronze.

Russell competed in the IPC Swimming World Championships for the first time in 2013 when she travelled to Montréal as part of the Great Britain team. She earned five awards, a bronze in the 400m freestyle, three gold in the 50m freestyle, 100 meters freestyle, and 100m butterfly, as well as a world champion in the 100m backstroke. In Eindhoven, she participated in the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships. She continued her rivalry with Russian Darya Stukalova, who began in Montreal. Russell received six medals, all silver, except for the 100m backstroke, for which she received gold on the day of her eighteenth birthday. She returned to Woking Swimming Club and City of Manchester Aquatics just after her eighteenth birthday and has been a member of both Woking Swimming Club and City of Manchester Aquatics since May 2016. The 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, was her last major international before the 2016 Paralympics. Russell had only three events, winning gold in the 50m backstroke and two silver medals in the 100m freestyle, but there were only three events for S12 classification swimmers.

Russell took a break from swimming in 2019 due to anxiety and depression. During this time, she obtained a degree in sport science from the University of Salford and was inspired to return to swimming by the 2019 Para-Swimming World Championships.

Russell earned the gold medal in the S12 Women's 100 meters Backstroke and a bronze medal in the S13 Women's 100m Freestyle at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, as well as in the S13 Women's 50m Freestyle.

Russell was selected Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours and Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).

Hannah Russell earned her first Commonwealth Games medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. In the Women's 50m Freestyle S13, she earned the silver medal.

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