| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | (2003-11-18)18 November 2003 (age 21) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Paralympic swimming |
| Disability class | S14, SB14, SM14 |
| Club | St Andrew's SC |
| Coached by | Ashley Delaney |
Medal record | |
Ruby Storm (born 18 November 2003)[1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. She represented Australia at the2019 World Para Swimming Championships, winning a bronze medal, and at the2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won a silver and bronze medal. At the2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal.[2]
Storm was born on 18 November 2003 and grew up inTraralgon, Victoria. She has indigenous heritage.[3]
As a child Storm was scared of the water but she learnt to swim by observing her older sister.[4] She is classified as anS14 swimmer. She smashed records at the 2018 Para Pan Pac trials in winning the 200m freestyle event.[4] At the2019 World Para Swimming Championships,London, she was a member of the Australian team that won the bronze medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay S14. She also competed in the Women's 200m Freestyle S14, Women's 100m Breaststroke SB14, Women's 200m Individual Medley SM14 and Women's 100m Butterfly S14.[1]
At the2020 Summer Paralympics, Storm teamed up withMadeleine McTernan,Ricky Betar andBenjamin Hance in theMixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14.[5] They won the silver medal with a time of 3:46.38, just under 6 seconds behind the winners, Great Britain, who set a world record.[6] She also won the bronze medal in theWomen's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 1:06.50, just under 3 seconds slower thatValeriia Shabalina of RPC who broke the world record. In second place was another AustralianPaige Leonhardt. She made three other individual finals.[7]
Storm won the silver medal in the Mixed 4 x 100 m Freestyle S14 at the2022 World Para Swimming Championships,Madeira.[8] She did not medal in three other events.
At the2022 Commonwealth Games,Birmingham, England, she finished 6th in theWomen's 100 m freestyle S14.[9] Storm won a silver medal at the2023 World Para Swimming Championships in Manchester, England in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14.
At the2024 Paris Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14. She competed in three other events - Women's 100 butterfly S14 (9th), Women's 00 m freestyle S14 (7th) and Women's 100 m breaststroke SB14 (9th).[10]
Storm was coached by Deen Gooch in Traralgon but, as of 2024, is coached byAshley Delaney at St Andrews Swim Club on the Sunshine Coast.
