Ellie Challis

Ellie Challis, born on 23 March 2004, is a British para swimmer who represented Great Britain at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics. She made her international debut at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships, winning a bronze medal in the women's 50 metre backstroke S3, and won silver in the same event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She was born in Harold Wood, grew up in Clacton in Essex and attended Tendring Technology College. At sixteen months she contracted meningitis, which led to the amputation of her legs above the knee and of her arms below the elbow, and she was inspired to swim by watching the film Dolphin Tale.