Kayla Clarke
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Clarke
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| Full name | Kayla Clarke | ||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born | 6 August 1991 | ||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Strokes | backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle | ||||||||||||
| Classifications | S14, SB14, SM14 | ||||||||||||
| Club | Yeronga Park | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Rick Vanderzandt | ||||||||||||
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Kayla Clarke (born 6 August 1991) is an indigenous Australian swimmer who represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming, and has medalled at the 2010 Australian Disability Age Group Nationals, and 2010 International Paralympic Swimming World Championships, 2009 Queensland State Championships, 2009 Queensland Secondary School Titles, and 2009 Global Games. She competes in a number of events, including the 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.
Clarke was born in Silkstone, Queensland. She has an intellectual disability. She attended Ipswich Central High School and Bremer State High School, and was named the 2009–10 Ipswich News YoungStar Sports winner.
Clarke started swimming competitively in 2007, and competes in the S14 classification. She was a member of the Woogaroo Swimming Club, and was coached by Tony Keogh, who became her coach in 2008. She has a swimming scholarship with the Queensland Academy of Sport, is involved in the Australian Institute of Sport program, and received A$20,000 in Australian Government Direct Athlete Support (DAS) funds in the 2011–12 financial year. One of her major swimming rivals is fellow Australian swimmer Taylor Corry.
At the 2009 Queensland State Championships, she won five gold medals in her classification races. The Queensland Secondary School Titles that year ended with her winning seven first-place finishes, and she earned five gold medals, a silver medal two bronze medals at the 2009 Global Games.
In 2010, she won eight gold and two silver medals at Australian Disability Age Group Nationals, and competed in the International Paralympic Swimming World Championships, where she finished second with a personal best time of 1:11.13 in the S14 100m backstroke event. She also finished fourth in the 200m freestyle and fifth in the 100m breaststroke.
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