Saying Grace: Student swimmer makes splash at Paralympics
An immunology student at The University of Manchester is to go for Paralympic glory as world number one when she starts in the swimming competition on Thursday (26/08/21). Grace Harvey, will be racing in the 200m IM (SM6), 100m breaststroke (SB5), her main events, and the 400m free (S6), 100m back (S6) and 50m butterfly (S6). She is world number one in the 100m breastroke SB5. From Ware in Hertfordshire, her first racethe 200M IM (SM6) will be at 9:43 Tokyo time The 200m IM take place on days 2 of the Games 26th August and the 100m breastroke on day 4, the 28th august. Other events fall over days 6,9 and 10. Grace, who has cerebral palsy and began swimming when she was 4, has no function in her lower legs, swimming without a kick and co-ordination difficulties in her upper limbs. She has broken 11 British records, including the European record in the S7 200m IM which she broke swimming for the University at the 2018 British Universities & Colleges Sport championhips.
