HELLO EVERYONE today we will be talking about Sophie pasceo. She was won 11 gold medals in our life! We were really lucky as she went in our school. OUR SCHOOL. Because she was best friends with one of the teachers Wheae Megan! I will be giving facts about her and showing her medals when I get the picture! The experience first. t was so fun meeting her she had so many medals that we could hold and feel. She told us here life story which was a bit sad that she got run over a lawn mower. But it’s ok because now Sophie Pascoe is a Paralympic swimmer. She was born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
When she was only two years old, her father accidentally ran over her on his ride-on
lawnmower. As a result, her left leg had to be amputated below the knee and her right
leg was left with severe scarring.
Pascoe started swimming at the age of 7 and at the age of 15, she was the youngest
ever New Zealander to attend the Paralympic Games in Beijing 2008.
Pascoe has won nineteen medals at the Paralympics. In October 2020, Sophie Pascoe
continued to add to her impressive list of world Para swimming records in three
different 50m events. Pascoe now holds the SB8 breaststroke, S9 freeStyale and
S9 butterfly which she broke at New Zealand’s 2020 Short Course Championships.Pascoe has won seven Halberg Awards for Para swimming, including Para Athlete of the Decade.
She has an older sister named Rebecca.
She currently holds twenty world Para swimming records across long and short course races.
Pascoe has a passion for fashion and studied part-time at fashion school.
She is the most decorated New Zealand Paralympian.
She was the first Paralympian to carry New Zealand’s flag at a Commonwealth Games opening
ceremony in 2018.
She also retired at January 2025. Just last year!