Tully Kearney

Tully Kearney turned silver from Tokyo 2020 in to gold at Paris 2024 with a win in the S5 200m freestyle in the French capital. She also topped the podium in the 100m freestyle, retaining the title she won on her Games debut three years previously.

The Aldridge swimmer is also a 10-time world champion and holds three world records in the S5 freestyle disciplines from 50m to 200m.

Away from the pool, Tully participates in the track sport of frame-running, where she has also set up a club for children and beginners at her training base in Loughborough. She often trains alongside her assistance dog called Huxley.

She credits frame running as the key to her recovery from a shoulder injury that prevented her from making her Paralympic debut in 2016 that was coupled with a progression in her condition of generalised dystonia, a movement disorder, that forced a two-year break from competing.

She returned in 2018 after being reclassified to the S5 category and was on top of the podium again as a European champion in Dublin after winning the 100m freestyle.

Tully has since led the field from 2019, where she became a triple world champion in London before successfully defending those three freestyle titles with three world record times in Madeira three years later in 2022.

Outside of swimming, Tully is a big Notts Country fan and watched the club return to EFL live at Wembley in 2023!