Discipline
Para Swimming
- 100m backstroke S14
- 200m freestyle S14
- 200m individual medley SM14
Paralympic Games Attended
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Rio 2016
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London 2012
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Sporting Career Highlight
Being a part of the Australian team for the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games, and 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games
S*** happens - don't let it hold you back
Two-time Paralympian Daniel Fox is one of the Australian Para-swimming team’s most experienced competitors.
He exploded onto the international scene in 2010, winning a World Championships silver medal in the men’s 200m freestyle S14, and followed it with a mammoth four gold medals at the 2011 Arafura Games in Darwin, NT.
With an international medal haul to be envied by even the best of them, Daniel arrived at the London 2012 Paralympic Games with a target on his back. And for good reason, too – Daniel contested two events – the men’s 100m backstroke S14 and men’s 200m freestyle S14 – and reached the finals in both, just missing the podium with fourth over 100m and touching for silver in his pet event, the 200m.
But Daniel was only just getting started. At the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships in Montréal, Canada, he won his first major international gold medal, and notched a second in 2014 at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, where he raced to two world records in the men’s 100m freestyle S14 – once in the heats, and again in the final.
Two bronze medals came in 2016 and 2018, and Daniel is now doing everything he can to not only return to the podium this August at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games – but achieve his long-held dream of winning a Paralympic gold medal.
In his career outside the pool, Daniel was an ambassador of the 2019 Global Games.
