Jeanette Chippington

Jeanette Chippington, born Jeanette Clare Esling on 21 April 1970 in Taplow, England, is a British para swimmer and para canoeist who has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics. She swam at five of them, from Seoul in 1988 to Athens in 2004, competing in the S6 classification mainly over 50 and 100 metres freestyle. A virus in 1982 damaged her spinal cord and left her paralysed in both legs. After retiring from swimming she became a world class paracanoeist, winning gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Her total count of Paralympic gold medals is left open until a source that states it is found.