Paralympics Day 3 Preview: Ellie Simmonds

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Simmonds is Britain's youngest ever Paralympic champion Credit: PA

Date of birth:

11 November 1994

Event:

400m Freestyle (S6) (10.13 & 17.50)

Hometown:

Walsall

Paralympics history:

Beijing 2008

100m Freestyle (S6): gold

400m Freestyle (S6): gold

Ellie Simmonds made sure she would be the face of this year's Paralympics by bursting onto the scene four years ago and becoming Great Britain's youngest ever Paralympic champion. Simmonds is also a Ten-time world champion and was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. The biggest threat to her becoming the darling of the Games is American Victoria Arien who broke Simmonds' 100m and 400m freestyle world records at the June US trials.