Monique Murphy
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| Nationality |  Australia |
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| Born | 9 April 1994 | ||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||
| Disability | Amputee | ||||||
| Disability class | S10 | ||||||
| Club | Vicentre | ||||||
| Coached by | Brad Harris | ||||||
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Monique Murphy (born 9 April 1994)[1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[2]
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Personal
Murphy was born on 9 April 1994.[3] In 2014, Murphy fell 20m from a fifth story balcony[4] which left her in a coma.[5] Murphy recalls her injuries when she woke, “I woke up in hospital with a broken jaw in two places, a cut to my neck close to the main artery and windpipe, a broken left collarbone, a tear in my triceps tendon, three broken ribs and a tibial plateau fracture.”[4] Unfortunately, Murphy’s injuries were too severe for recovery, which led to the amputation of her right leg below the knee.[4] In 2016, she is studying a Bachelor of Social Work with honours at RMIT. She also volunteers with St Vincent de Paul with their youth program.[3]
Career
Murphy started swimming at a young age with the Tuggeranong Vikings Swim Club; swimming as an abled-bodied swimmer.[6] Since the accident in 2014, Murphy was determined to get back in the pool and started training at 2014 at Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club in Melbourne. She now swims under the classification of S10[1] and was picked to travel with 30 other athletes[7] to Glasgow for the IPC World Championships.[8] Here, she placed 6th and 7th in the Women’s 400m Freestyle (S10) and Women’s 100m Butterfly (S10) respectively.[1]
Murphy has revolutionized how she trains with a “prosthetic fin” which she calls her, “mermaid leg.” This new leg helps her engage the muscles of her right leg when swimming.[4]
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