Stephanie Millward

Stephanie Millward

200px Stephanie Millward with her 2012 Summer Paralympics medals at the Our Greatest Team Parade
Personal information
Full name	Stephanie Millward
Nationality	British (English)
Born	(1981-09-20) 20 September 1981 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Swimming Representing Great Britain Paralympic Games 2012 London 100 m backstroke S9 2012 London 400  m freestyle S9 2012 London 200-metre individual medley SM9 2012 London 4 × 100-metre medley relay 34pts 2012 London 4 × 100  m freestyle relay 34pts IPC World Championships 2013 Montreal 4x100m medley relay 34pts 2013 Montreal 4x100m freestyle relay 34pts 2013 Montreal 100m freestyle S9 2013 Montreal 100m backstroke S9 2010 Eindhoven 100m freestyle S9 2010 Eindhoven 400m freestyle S9 2010 Eindhoven 100m backstroke S9 2010 Eindhoven 4x100m freestyle relay 34pts 2010 Eindhoven 4x100m medley relay 34pts 2013 Montreal 200m medley 2010 Eindhoven 100m butterfly S9 IPC European Championships 2009 Reykjavik 100 m butterfly S9 2009 Reykjavik 4×100 m medley relay 34pts 2009 Reykjavik 400 m freestyle S9 2009 Reykjavik 100 m backstoke S9 2014 Eindhoven 100m backstoke S9 2014 Eindhoven 400m freestyle S9 2014 Eindhoven 4x100m freestyle relay 34pts 2014 Eindhoven 4x100m medley relay 34pts 2016 Funchal 400 m freestyle S9 2016 Funchal 100m medley relay 34pts 2009 Reykjavik 100 m freestyle S9 2016 Funchal 100 m backstroke S9 2014 Eindhoven 100m butterfly S9 2016 Funchal 100 m freestyle S9 Representing England Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 100 m butterfly S9 2010 Delhi 100 m freestyle S9 2010 Delhi 50 m freestyle S9

Stephanie Millward (born on 20 September 1981) is a British Paralympic swimmer.

Personal life

Millward was born on 20 September 1981 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At the age of 17 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). As a result she competes in the S9 Paralympic classification.

School

Stephanie attended the Corsham School, Wiltshire

Swimming

Millward was close to a place in the British international able-bodied team and, having broken the British record for the 100-metre backstroke at the age of 15, hoped to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics before she was diagnosed with MS.

She qualified for the 2008 Summer Paralympics held in Beijing, China where she entered four S9 events. She finished fourth in the 100-metre backstroke, fifth in the 100-metre freestyle, sixth in the 50-metre freestyle and thirteenth in the 100-metre butterfly.

In 2009 Millward won two medals at the British Disability Swimming Championships, taking a silver in the 100 freestyle and bronze in the 100-metre butterfly. At the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Swimming Championships held in Reykjavík, Iceland, she won three gold and two silver medals in individual events and added a further two gold medals in relays. At the 2009 IPC Swimming World Championships 25 m in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil she won two gold, three silver and a bronze in individual competitions and two gold medals in relay events.

At the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, she won silver medals in the 100 m freestyle, the 400 m freestyle, the 100 m backstroke, the 4×100 m freestyle relay (34pts) and the 4×100 m medley relay (34pts). She also won a bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly. She represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won silver medals in the 100-metre butterfly S9 and the 100-metre freestyle S9 and a bronze medal in the 50-metre freestyle S9, finishing behind winner Natalie du Toit of South Africa on each occasion.

At the 2011 IPC European Championships in Berlin, Germany, Millward won three gold and two silver medals, including setting a world record time of four minutes, 52.40 seconds on the way to winning gold in the 4×100 m medley relay (34pts) alongside Heather Frederiksen, Claire Cashmore and Louise Watkin.

Millward was named as part of a 44-swimmer squad to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom. At the Games she won her first Paralympic medal, a silver, in the 100 m backstroke S9. This was followed by four further medals. She won bronze in the 4 × 100  m freestyle relay (34pts), swimming with Cashmore, Watkin and Susie Rodgers; a silver in 400 m freestyle S9, finishing behind South African Natalie Du Toit; another silver came as she once again finished behind du Toit in the SM9 200 m individual medley in a new European record time of four minutes, 4.40 seconds. Her fifth and final medal came in the 100-metre medley relay (34 pts) swimming with Frederiksen, Cashmore and Watkin. The British quartet were in fourth place heading into the final leg but Watkin came through to finish in second place, three hundredths of a second behind the winning team from Australia.