Song Lingling
.jpg) at Rio in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Born | 17 January 1996 China |
| Sport | |
| Sport | swimming |
| Disability class | S6 |
| Event(s) | Freestyle, Breaststroke and Backstroke[1] |
Medal record | |
Song Lingling (born 17 January 1996) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class.
Life
Song was born in 1996 and she lost the use of her legs due to polio. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won a silver medal in the SB5 100 m backstroke (S6).
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in London she won a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke (S6). Her team mate Lu Dong took the silver.[2]
References
- ^ Song Lingling, Rio2016, Retrieved 9 September 2016
- ^ Paralympics 2016: Storey clinches 12th gold as Dias thrills Rio crowd – as it happened, The Guardia, Retrieved 9 September 2016
Categories:
- Paralympic swimmers of China
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Living people
- 1996 births
- Paralympic silver medalists for China
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Chinese female swimmers
- S6-classified Paralympic swimmers
- Sportspeople from Shandong