Paralympic Athlete
Ahmed Kelly
Ahmed Kelly was born on 18 November 1991 in Baghdad, Iraq with a double arm and leg deficiency. Until the age of seven, he lived in at Baghdad's Mother Teresa Orphanage with his brother, Emmanuel who has a similar disability.
In 2000, he went Australia to get medical care for their disability. He classified swimmer and swims for Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club. He was coached by Brad Harris but in 2021 trains at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra under coach Yuriy Vdovychenko. As of 2016, he has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in four events. Kelly competed in four events at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, Kelly won the silver medal in the Men's 150m Individual Medley. Kelly won his first Paralympic medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, by winning the silver medal in the Men's 150 m individual medley.
Member of Group 2 :
- Andri Samuel Gustav
- Rayhan Ananda Murdiono
- Adithya Putra Pratama

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