Jeff Hardy (swimmer)
Australian Paralympic swimmer
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Lewis Hardy, OAM[1][2] (born 13 March 1959)[3] is an Australian swimmer with a vision impairment. Hardy was born in the New South Wales town of Narrabri.[3] At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Men's 100 m Butterfly B2 and Men's 400 m Freestyle B2 events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia,[1] and a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m Medley B2 event.[4] On 16 November 1997 in Brisbane, he set a 1500 m S12 world record that has remained unsurpassed as of August 2017, with a time of 18:57.10.[5] At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S12 event.[4] In 2001, he was inducted into the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame.[6]
Close up of Hardy in action at the pool at the 2000 Summer Paralympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jeffrey Lewis Hardy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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