Summer Mortimer

Summer Mortimer
Mortimer at the Olympic Heroes Parade in Toronto, September 2012
Personal information
Full nameSummer Ashley Mortimer
NicknameThe Storm[3]
NationalityCanadian, Dutch
Born (1993-04-22) April 22, 1993 (age 31)
Height1.73 m (68 in)[3]
Weight61 kg (134 lb)[3]
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubDucks Swimming Club
CoachReg Chappell (current)[1]
Craig Mortimer (her father)[2]
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 50 m freestyle S10
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 100 m backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 200 m individual medley SM10
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Women's 100m freestyle – S10
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Eindhoven 50m freestyle S10
Gold medal – first place 2010 Eindhoven 100m freestyle S10
Gold medal – first place 2010 Eindhoven 100m backstroke S10
Gold medal – first place 2010 Eindhoven 200m medley SM10
Representing  Netherlands
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 100m backstroke S10
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow 100m freestyle S10
IPC European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Eindhoven 50m freestyle S10
Gold medal – first place 2014 Eindhoven 100m backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 2014 Eindhoven 100m freestyle S10

Summer Ashley Mortimer (born April 22, 1993) is a Canadian-Dutch former paraswimmer who competed internationally for Canada, and later the Netherlands national paralympic team, an artist, a performing artist, and CBC Sports personality.

Mortimer won seven world-championship finals for Canada and the Netherlands, and four medals for Canada at her first Paralympic Games in London: two gold, one silver and one bronze.

Mortimer competed in the 2008 Canadian Olympic Trials as an able-bodied swimmer, and retrained as a paraswimmer after a trampolining accident. She began competing at the international level in 2010 with an SM10 classification, setting world records in the process (one of which she broke again in qualifying for the 2012 Paralympics). Competing in six events, Mortimer won medals in all four individual races. She holds world records in the S10 50- and 100-metre long-course freestyle and the 50- 100- and 200-metre backstroke. In 2013 Mortimer applied to join the Netherlands national team, and announced her transfer in June 2014. Winning three medals (two gold and one silver) at the 2014 IPC championships, she set two European records. She did not compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics, citing "serious health reasons."[4]

She was a sports analyst for swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics, on CBC, as well as the 2020 Summer Paralympics, broadcast on CBC and AMI-tv. She also co-hosted with Scott Russell for the 2022 Winter Paralympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics on the same channels.

  1. ^ "Swimming Canada Announces Paralympic Swim Team for London". Swimming Canada. Ottawa ON. 4 June 2012. Archived from the original on 13 June 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ^ Moko, Larry (16 April 2011). "Different strokes". The Hamilton Spectator. Hamilton ON. Archived from the original on 30 August 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Craggs, Samantha (29 August 2012). "Ancaster's Summer Mortimer hopeful at Paralympic Games". CBC Hamilton. Hamilton ON. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  4. ^ "Summer Mortimer Not Named Among 18 for Dutch Paralympic Squad". 11 April 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2016-04-11.