Lakeisha Patterson

Lakeisha Patterson
OAM
Patterson in 2016
Personal information
Full nameLakeisha Patterson
NicknameLucky
NationalityAustralian
Born (1999-01-05) 5 January 1999 (age 25)
Wodonga, Victoria
SpouseWilliam Martin
Sport
SportSwimming
ClassificationsS9
ClubUSC Spartans
CoachCasey Atkins
Medal record
Women's paralympic swimming
Representing  Australia
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 3 3 1
World Championships 3 2 2
Commonwealth Games 2 0 1
Total 8 5 4
Paralympics
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 400 m freestyle S9
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 50m freestyle S8
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100m freestyle S8
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 400 m freestyle S9
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200m individual medley S8
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2019 London 400 m freestyle S9
Gold medal – first place 2023 Manchester 400 m freestyle S9
Silver medal – second place 2015 Glasgow 50 m freestyle S8
Silver medal – second place 2015 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S8
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow 400 m freestyle S8
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 50 m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 100 m freestyle S9
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S8

Lakeisha Dawn Patterson, OAM (born 5 January 1999) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She won medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won Australia's first gold medal of the Games in a world record time swim in the Women's 400m freestyle S8. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she won the gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9.[1] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won the silver medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S9.

  1. ^ "Swimming - PATTERSON Lakeisha". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 25 August 2021.[dead link]