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While newcomer <strong>Jasmine Greenwood<\/strong>\u00a0had her first international classification and currently sits in class S10, SB9, SM10. All three athletes will have their classification reviewed again in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Paralympic High Performance Manager\u00a0<strong>Adam Pine<\/strong>\u00a0said, \u201cThe classification of athletes in Para swimming is a requirement for competition and carried out by independent medical and technical classifiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a strong support system around our athletes to ensure that they will continue to race confidently and I am confident that the athletes will embrace the challenge and continue to improve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready we have seen these athletes step up at the Para World Series meet with Tiffany collecting two gold, Jasmine picking up one and Maddie taking a third-place finish in her new classification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall I am extremely impressed with the Australian team\u2019s performance so early in the year and I am looking forward to seeing them continue to progress as we head towards the Para World Championships in\u00a0October and the Commonwealth Games in April 2018. Plus it is only 1169 days until the Tokyo Paralympic Games.\u201d Pine said.<\/p>\n<p>The final World Series will take place in Berlin, Germany, from <span data-term=\"goog_1318312176\">July 6 to 9<\/span>, the last major international competition before the World\u00a0Para Swimming\u00a0Championships, from <span data-term=\"goog_1318312177\">30 September to 6 October<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Our Australian swimmers will have a Para Grand Prix meet at Southport on the Gold Coast this September and this will be the last hit out before the World Para Swimming Championships and the last domestic opportunity to qualify for 2018 Commonwealth Games slots.<\/p>\n<p><em>Press release courtesy of Swimming Australia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paralympic gold medallist\u00a0Lakeisha Patterson\u00a0has led the charge for the Aussies competing at the Para World Series in Indianapolis picking up an impressive five gold medals at the meet that finished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":53643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62076,10],"tags":[40203,62077,58468,42009,6725],"class_list":["post-260501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paralympics","category-world","tag-lakeisha-patterson","tag-para-world-series-indianapolis","tag-paralympic-swimming","tag-paralympics","tag-swimming-australia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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