Tokyo Paralympics 2021: When is swimmer Ellie Simmonds next competing?

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy British swimmer Ellie Simmonds, 26, is taking part in her fourth consecutive Paralympics Games in Tokyo 2020, having made her debut at Beijing 2008 aged just 13 and picked up two golds in the 100m and 400m freestyle, an astonishing moment. There’s everything from powerlifting to athletics.” Of her own disability, which sees her swim in the S6 category, Simmonds said: “I’ve never been bullied. I just embrace every day as it comes and try to live the best I can.” Simmonds took up swimming at the age of five and joined Boldmere Swimming Club in Sutton Coldfield while she was at school in Aldridge but she and her mother would later relocate to Swansea when she was 11 to take advantage of the city’s swimming facilities to further her training. Simmonds has already been seen at the Games as a ParalympicsGB flagbearer alongside archer John Stubbs during Tuesday’s opening ceremony before her heats began in the 200m medley on Thursday in which Simmonds finished fifth and commented: “I was super relaxed and not feeling the nerves and just wanted to enjoy it.