Background
Fox was born on 21 May 1991 and is from Cleveland, Queensland.
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Daniel Fox
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He has an intellectual disability. As of 2012, he was a full-time swimming competitor while also working part-time at McDonalds in his home town. Fox is an S14 classified swimmer.
Fox started swimming when he was a toddler.
He started competing in 2009 as a thirteen-year-old and made his national team debut that same year when he competed at the Global Games. At that competition, he earned three gold and two silver medals.
He competed in the 2010 World Championships in the men"s 200m freestyle event where he finished second. He earned a bronze medal and three gold medals at the 2011 Can Department of Administration and Management Championships in California.
He competed in the 2012 Australian national championships.
He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming in the 200m freestyle and backstroke events. Going into the Paralympic Games, he was ranked third in the world and training four hours a day in the pool. In the heats, Fox broke the world record.
Competing at the 2015 IPC World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, he finished fourth in the Men"s 200m Freestyle S14, eighth in the Men"s 100m Backstroke S14 and sixteenth in the Men"s 200m Individual Medley SM14.
Achievements
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He won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games At the 2011 Arafura Games, he won fourfold medals. Competing at the 2013 IPC World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Fox won the gold medal in the Men"s 200 m Freestyle S14. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland he won the gold medal in the Men"s 200 m Freestyle S14.
Membership
He trains at the Brisbane-based Chandler Centre and is a member of the Chandler Club.
