Jeff Hardy (swimmer)


Jeffrey Jeff Lewis Hardy, OAM is an Australian swimmer with a vision impairment. He was born in the New South Wales town of Narrabri. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Mens 100160m Butterfly B2 and Mens 400160m Freestyle B2 events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Mens 200160m Medley B2 event. OnNovember 1997 in Brisbane, he set a 1500160m S12 world record that has remained unsurpassed as of January 2012, with a time of 1857.10. At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Mens 400160m Freestyle S12 event. In 2001, he was inducted into the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame.

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