Tracey Cross

Cross won her first international gold medal in the women's 400 m Freestyle B1 at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands.^[5][6]

At the 1992 Barcelona Games, she won two gold medals in the Women's 100 m Freestyle B1 and Women's 400 m Freestyle B1 events, and two silver medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke B1 and Women's 200 m Medley B1 events;^[7] she also came fourth in both the Women's 100 m Butterfly B1^[8] and Women's 50 m Freestyle B1 events.^[9]

She won two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Women's 100 m Butterfly B1 and the Women's 200 m Medley B1 events, and a silver medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle B1 event;^[7] she also came fifth in the Women's 100 m Backstroke B1 event^[10] and came seventh in the heats of the Women's 400 m Freestyle B2 event.^[11]

She spoke the Paralympic oath at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.^[12] In the competition, she received two silver medals in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S11 and the Women's 400 m Freestyle S11 events, and a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S11 event;^[7] she also came fifth in the Women's 200 m Medley SM11 event^[13] and eighth in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S11 event.^[14]

In 1993, Cross received a Medal of the Order of Australia for her 1992 Paralympic gold medals.^[1] In that year, she also received the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award in the Youth category.^[15] On 14 November 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal "For Service to Sport as a gold Medallist at the Paralympic Games".^[16] She received a Centenary Medal on 1 January 2001 "For service to the community through Paralympic swimming".^[17] In 2009, she was inducted into the Swimming Western Australia Hall of Fame.^[18]