Maisie Summers-Newton

Maisie Summers-Newton (born 26 July 2002)[1] is a British Paralympic swimmer, competing in S6 disability events. In August 2018, she took gold in the IPC Swimming European Championships SM6 200m individual medley and set a new world record at 2:59.60.[2][3] She also holds the S6 100m Breaststroke world record in 1:33.92, which she achieved in May 2018 at the British Para-Swimming International Meet.[1]

Maisie Summers-Newton

Personal information
Nationality	British
Born	(2002-07-26) 26 July 2002 Northamptonshire, England
Sport
Country	Great Britain
Sport	Paralympic swimming
Disability class	S6
Medal record Representing  United Kingdom Women's Swimming Paralympic Games 2020 Tokyo 200 m medley SM6 2020 Tokyo 100 m breaststroke SB6 World Para Swimming Championships 2019 London 200 m medley SM6 World Para Swimming European Championships 2018 Dublin 200 m medley SM6

She was nominated for the 2018 BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year, joining a shortlist of 10 other British athletes.[4][5]

Summers-Newton took gold at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London. She created a new world record for the SM6 200m Individual Medley when she beat Yelyzaveta Mereshko from the Ukraine.[6] The record had been set earlier that year by Summers-Newton in Glasgow.[7]

In April 2021, at Sheffield's Ponds Forge sports centre, Summers-Newton came second in points in the freestyle swimming to Grace Harvey and,[8] in July, she was named as part of the Great Britain team to compete at the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.[9] At the Paralympics, Summers-Newton won gold in the 200m individual medley, setting a new world record of 2:56.68 in the process.[10]