Jake Michel
{{short description|Australian Paralympic swimmer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2021}}
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| country = Australia
| sport = Paralympic swimming
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| club = Carina Leagues Clem Jones Swim Club
| coach = Brian Glass
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{{Medal|Sport|Paralympic swimming}}
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{{MedalCompetition | Paralympics Games}}
{{MedalSilver|2020 Tokyo|100 m breaststroke SB14}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Paris|100 m breaststroke SB14}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver |2022 Madeira| 100 m breaststroke SB14}}
{{MedalSilver |2022 Madeira| Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay S14}}
{{MedalGold |2023 Manchester| Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay 49 pts}}
{{MedalBronze |2023 Manchester| 100 m breaststroke SB14}}
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Jake Michel (born 19 September 1997){{Cite web|title=Jake Michel|url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/athlete/jake-michel/|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Paralympics Australia|date=12 March 2020 }} is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and 2024 Paris Paralympics, he won the silver medal in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB14 . Michel has won medals at the World Para Swimming Championships. {{Cite web |date=14 June 2024 |title=Paralympics Australia Names Swimming Team For Paris 2024 Games |url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/2024/06/paralympics-australia-names-swimming-team-for-paris-2024-games/ |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Paralympics Australia}}
Personal
Michel was born on 19 September 1997 and has an intellectual disability. He is 6 ft 7 in tall. He attended Gumdale State School and [http://www.seton.qld.edu.au/ Seton College] in Brisbane.{{Cite news|date=14 March 2019|title=Michel closes in on major marks|work=Wynnum Herald}}
Swimming career
Michel is a breaststroke specialist and classified as SB14. His Paralympic swimming career started in 2014 and he was selected in Australian Dolphins’ development squad in 2018. His first international competition was the 2018 Pan Pacific Para-swimming Championships in Cairns, QLD, where he blitzed the field in the men's 100 m breaststroke SB4-9/11-13 heats but was not eligible to compete in the final due to being a development squad member. At the 2019 Australian Swimming Championships, in Adelaide, he won gold in a Men's 50 m and 100 m Breaststroke Multi-Class events.{{Cite web|title=Jake Michel|url=https://www.swimming.org.au/athletes/jake-michel|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Swimming Australia|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203350/https://www.swimming.org.au/athletes/jake-michel|url-status=dead}}
At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London he finished fourth in the men's 100 m breaststroke SB14 in an Oceania record. At the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials in Adelaide, his 1:04.35 set an Australian 100 m Breaststroke SB14 record.{{Cite web|date=15 June 2021|title=Jake Michel l Australian Record Breaking Moment | 2021 Australian Swimming Trials|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1OOFJqlF_c|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Youtube}}
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, in his only event, Michel won the silver medal in the Men's 100 m breaststroke SB14.{{Cite web|date=16 June 2021|title=Paralympics Australia Names Powerful Para-Swimming Team For Tokyo|url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/2021/06/paralympics-australia-names-powerful-para-swimming-team-for-tokyo/|access-date=20 June 2021|website=Paralympics Australia}}{{Cite web|title=Jake Michel|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n1498340-michel-jake.htm|access-date=8 October 2021|work=Tokyo 2020 Paralympics|publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games|archive-date=8 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008044330/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/swimming/athlete-profile-n1498340-michel-jake.htm|url-status=dead}} His time of 1:04.28 was less than one second behind the gold medal winner Naohide Yamaguchi of Japan.{{Cite web |title=Australian Paralympic Team for Tokyo 2021 |url=https://www.theroar.com.au/olympics/australian-paralympic-team/ |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=The Roar}}
At the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira,{{Cite web |title=Grant Patterson |url=https://www.paralympic.org/madeira-2022/schedule-results |access-date=27 June 2022 |website=2022 World Para Swimming Championships}} Michel won two silver medals - Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB14 and Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay S14. {{Cite web |date=21 June 2022 |title=Dolphins Create Australian Swimming History In Portugal |url=https://www.swimming.org.au/articles/dolphins-create-australian-swimming-history-portugal |access-date=15 August 2022 |website=Swimming Australia}} At the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships, Manchester, England, Michel won the silver medal in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB14 and the gold medal in the Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay 49 pts.
Michel repeated his Tokyo Paralympics medal, by winning the silver medal in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB14 at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
References
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External links
- {{Swimming Australia|jake-michel}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20220315171033/https://www.swimming.org.au/athletes/jake-michel archive])
- {{Paralympics Australia|jake-michel}}
- {{IPC|jake-michel}}
- [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024-paralimpicos/atleta/jake-michel_3069009 Jake Michel] at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics
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Category:Intellectual disability-category Paralympic competitors
Category:Male Paralympic swimmers for Australia
Category:Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Category:Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
Category:Paralympic medalists in swimming
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Category:Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
Category:Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
Category:Australian male breaststroke swimmers
Category:S14-classified para swimmers