Tully Kearney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tully Kearney
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Apr 11, 1997(1997-04-11)
Age	27
Birthplace	Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Aries

Tully Kearney Biography

Tully Kearney is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on April 11, 1997 in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Kearney was born in Nottingham, England in 1997 and was raised in Aldridge. Her birthmark was cerebral palsy (spastic diplegia) and was diagnosed with generalised dystonia which is a progressive neurological disorder of movement at the age of mid teens. The conditions mostly impact her lower limbs but as well as her left arm, shoulders , and trunk control. Kearney was diagnosed with Scoliosis in the year 2019. She was a student at The Cooper and Jordan School in Aldridge in Aldridge, in which one of her pupils was the future Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds. Her education continued in The Royal Wolverhampton School. Kearney completed the A Levels in The Streetly Academy. She earned an BSc (Hons) diploma from the field of Physiology at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she is currently studying for an Masters diploma in Human Physiology. She is the Patron of Dystonia UK and works tirelessly to increase awareness of the rare, progressive neurological disorder.

The award-winning Kearney after receiving her prize in the category of Junior Sportperson of the Year during Birmingham Sports Awards 2014. Birmingham Sports Awards 2014.

In 2015 Kearney qualified to represent Great Britain at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships held in Glasgow. Due to her progressive disability, Kearney was reclassified before the trials as a S9, SB8, SM9 swimmer. She was entered into seven events, including the freestyle relay and medley relay team events. She took home six medals in total, with golds in the medley relay, 100m butterfly (S9), 200m individual medley (SM9) and 400m freestyle (S9). Kearney also finished second in the 100m backstroke S9, behind a world record breaking swim by Australia’s Ellie Cole, and took bronze in the freestyle relay. Her gold in the 400m freestyle saw Kearney set a new European record with a time of 4:39.29, over ten seconds ahead of her silver placed rival, Nuria Marques Soto of Spain. Kearney also set a European record in the 100m butterfly, recording a time of 1:09.04. Her third European record was in the 200m individual medley in which she posted a time of 2:31.08. She was Great Britain’s highest medal earner at these championships and following this success was moved from the World Class Podium Potential programme to the Podium programme for the 2015/2016 season. Tully finished 2015 by making the final three athletes shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year at the 2015 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

In 2016 Kearney was selected for the Paralympic Games in Rio, but was forced to withdraw shortly before the games due to battling a significant progression of her Generalised Dystonia, coupled with an ongoing shoulder injury.

In 2011, Kearney selected for her debut international competition. It was her first international competition, the 25th German Open Meet in Berlin. In her age group competitions, she was awarded seven medals and then followed that up with silvers in the S10 200m freestyles, and 400m freestyles as well as silver in the SM10 200m individual medley, which was part of the open events. The 2011/12 season was the year that saw Kearney named World Class Development Funded athlete through British Disability Swimming, under the direction by Nathan Hilton. In 2013, at the British International Disability Swim Championships held in Sheffield, Kearney twice broke the British record for the 100m S10 backstroke in the heats, and again at the end of the competition. She also achieved personal records for three additional events. The performance she showed on the day earned her a spot on the British Team taking part in the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. In Montreal, Kearney entered five different events, and was awarded bronze in the women’s 400m Freestyle S10, which was a distant third behind the French’s Elodie Lorandi as well as Canada’s Aurelie Rivard.

Tully Kearney Net Worth

Tully Kearney is one of the richest Swimmer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tully Kearney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tully Kearney (born 11 April 1997) is a British Paralympic swimmer. Kearney is a competitor with the S5, SB4, SM5 classification for swimmers who have physical handicaps. She has been awarded medals at three IPC Swimming World Championships winning bronze at 2013. She also won bronze at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships, setting the British record. She also won four golds with a silver, four golds and a bronze medal at the year 2015 World Championships setting three European records. She also took home three gold medals during the World Para Swimming Championships in 2019, which set the three British records. In addition, she won bronze and gold medals in the World Para Swimming European Championships in 2018. Kearney has a number of British record holder and European record holder.

Kearney began swimming at eight, after she was approached by a coach as she watched her brother train at the local club. She decided to start swimming for competition after being impressed by Ellie Simmonds displayed her Paralympic medals during a school assembly. Kearney was a member of the Boldmere Swimming Club in 2010 and was coach by Ashley Cox. Her classification was S10 SB9, SM10, at the age of 14, she was competing in national youth competitions , winning the gold medal in seven events at the DSE (Disability Sports Events) Championships in Sheffield.

An illness during British trials in 2014, saw Kearney miss out on a place for both the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow and the European Championships in Eindhoven. She returned to swimming, competing in the National Paralympic Day swimming event at the London Aquatics Centre, winning the multi-classification 400m freestyle. She followed this with being awarded Junior Sportsperson of the Year at the Birmingham Sports Awards 2014, an award special to her as it was contended by both able-bodied and parasport athletes. In 2019 Kearney was named Birmingham Amateur Sportsperson of the Year and was awarded a Pride of Sport Award in recognition of her fight to return to competitive swimming following the sudden and significant progression of her Generalised Dystonia at the end of 2015 which led to her having to take a significant period of time out of the water and then having to learn to swim again.

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Tully Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tully Kearney celebrates birthday on April 11 of every year.