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}} Clare Cunningham (''née'' Bishop) (born 15 Jun 1977) is a paratriathlete and former Paralympic swimmer representing Great Britain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clare Cunningham )〕 She was born without her left forearm.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clare Cunningham: 2009 World Champion )〕 Cunningham first swam in international competition at the age of 13, at the 1990 World Games for the Disabled in Assen, The Netherlands.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clare Cunningham: FAQ )〕 At the 1992 Summer Paralympics, Cunningham won the Women's S9 50m freestyle event in what was then World Record time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games - Swimming - Women's 50 m Freestyle S9 )〕 She won silver medals in 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 4x100m freestyle relay and 4x100m medley relay events.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paralympic Games: Athlete Search Results: Clare Bishop )〕 She competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics but did not win a medal.〔 She retired from swimming after the Atlanta Paralympic games.〔 In 2006, Cunningham turned to triathlon.〔〔 Initially competing in age-group races against non-disabled triathletes, she discovered paratriathlon in 2009.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discovering paratriathlon )〕 Classified as a TRI-4 (arm-impaired) paratriathlete, she became the 2009 ITU European Paratriathlon Champion and 2009 World Paratriathlon Champion in her class.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clare Cunningham: Results )〕 She placed second at the ITU World Paratriathlon Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2012.〔 In late 2012, Cunningham was elected to the International Triathlon Union Athletes Committee. She and South African Oswald Kydd, elected on the same day, are the first-ever paratriathlete representatives on the ITU Athletes Committee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Clare Cunningham elected to ITU Athletes’ Committee )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Committees )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clare Cunningham (athlete)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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