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Mike Kenny, MBE (born 30 January 1945) is a retired British swimmer. He won 16 gold medals and two silvers over four Paralympic Games making him the most successful British Paralympian of all time. He twice retained his gold medals in three swimming events, breaking numerous world records in the process. ==Biography== Michael Joseph Kenny was born on 30 January 1945. Kenny was an engineer in the nuclear power industry and in 1971, while working a shift as a favour for a friend, he fell from the ladder he was using to work on a metal rig. He landed on his heels and the force was sent straight up his spine to his neck causing permanent damage and paralysing him. He began swimming as part of the recovery process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mike Kenny )〕 While competing at the Toronto 1976 Paralympic Games, Kenny shared a room with future International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president Philip Craven, in Canada's York University, where the British athletes were housed. He did not attend York University in the UK, as is often mistakenly asserted. Kenny is the most successful British Paralympian having won 16 individual gold medals and two team relay silver medals.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Athlete Search Results )〕 His achievements were not fully recognised at the time because the IPC and the British Paralympic Association were not established until 1989 and the results were not compiled until after Kenny had retired. Wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson was given the title of Britain's most prolific Paralympian until the discovery of Kenny's successes. Regarding Grey-Thompson, Kenny has said: "It's been suggested I am annoyed because she has all the glory. But that's not true. She is a smashing ambassador for the Paralympic movement and I have never had a cross word with her in my life."〔 Kenny has been a local magistrate in Salford, Greater Manchester since 1993. He initially applied to become a magistrate upon his retirement from sport in 1988, but had to wait four years for step-free access to be installed. Kenny received an MBE for his services to paraplegic sport at Buckingham Palace on 7 November 1989. 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「Mike Kenny (swimmer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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