Paralympics gold medallist Tiffany Thomas Kane and Australia’s ‘voice of rugby’, Gordon Bray, have been confirmed as the Armidale region’s Australia Day Ambassadors for 2019.
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Tiffany will be a guest and speaker at Australia Day activities in Armidale on Saturday, January 26, while Gordon will attend and speak at events in Guyra, Tingha and Ben Lomond on January 25 and 26.
Local Australia Day Events
Saturday, January 26
- 7am Australia Day Breakfast at the Ben Lomond War Memorial Hall
- 10am Armidale Official Australia Day Awards and Citizenship Ceremony in Central Park
- 11 am Guyra Flag Raising Ceremony Rotary Park Guyra on the New England Highway
- 6.30 pm Tingha Family BBQ Tingha Sport and Recreation Grounds. Movie in the Park at dusk (Sherlock Gnomes) followed by fireworks display by Holysmoke
Monday 28 January
- Guyra BYO Family Picnic followed by Movie in the Park (Sherlock Gnomes) at dusk, finishing with a fireworks display by Holysmoke.
Tiffany is a 17-year-old world record holder who burst onto the swimming scene by winning four medals at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships with a world record time of one minute 34.95 seconds at age 13.
She also won silver in the 50m butterfly and bronze in the 50m freestyle and 100m freestyle during her very memorable athletic baptism.
The folowing year at the Rio she made her Paralympic debut in Rio as one of the youngest members of the 2016 Australian team and went on to break her own world record at the Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide, where she swum the women’s 50m breaststroke multi-class event in a time of 43.06 seconds.
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In a stellar Games campaign, she set a world record on her way to winning gold in the 100m breaststroke and won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke, and also won bronze medals in the 50m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 200m individual medley.
“Just to think that I’m here competing for my country is amazing. It’s been such a good time and I’ve enjoyed it every second,” she reportedly said at the time.
Sydney-based Tiffany was born with hypochondroplasia, and became involved with swimming through her sister who also takes to the pool. Between her rigorous training regime for this year’s world swimming championships she rides showjumping with her pony “Minnie”.
A student at Ravenswood School in Sydney, she trains under coaches Mitch and Lach Falvey, and alongside Olympic and World Championship medallist James Magnussen, who happens to also be her role model.
