Background
Millward was born on 20 September 1981 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Millward was born on 20 September 1981 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Stephanie attended the Corsham, Wiltshire.
At the age of 17 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (Mississippi). As a result she competes in the S9 Paralympic classification. Millward was close to a place in the British international able-bodied team and, having broken the British record for the 100-metre backstroke at the age of 15, hoped to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics before she was diagnosed with Mississippi.
She qualified for the 2008 Summer Paralympics held in Beijing, China where she entered four S9 events.
Millward was named as part of a 44-swimmer squad to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom.
This was followed by four further medals. Her fifth and final medal came in the 100-metre medley relay (34 pts) swimming with Frederiksen, Cashmore and Watkin.
The British quartet were in fourth place heading into the final leg but Watkin came through to finish in second place, three hundredths of a second behind the winning team from Australia.
In 2009 Millward won two medals at the British Disability Championships, taking a silver in the 100 freestyle and bronze in the 100-metre butterfly. At the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) European Championships held in Reykjavík, Iceland, she won three gold and two silver medals in individual events and added a further two gold medals in relays. At the 2009 IPC World Championships 25 m in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil she won two gold, three silver and a bronze in individual competitions and two gold medals in relay events. At the 2010 IPC World Championships held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, she won silver medals in the 100 m freestyle, the 400 m freestyle, the 100 m backstroke, the 4×100 m freestyle relay (34pts) and the 4×100 m medley relay (34pts). She also won a bronze medal in the 100 m butterfly. She represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won silver medals in the 100-metre butterfly S9 and the 100-metre freestyle S9 and a bronze medal in the 50-metre freestyle S9, finishing behind winner Natalie du Toit of South Africa on each occasion. At the 2011 IPC European Championships in Berlin, Germany, Millward won three gold and two silver medals, including setting a world record time of four minutes, 52.40 seconds on the way to winning gold in the 4×100 m medley relay (34pts) alongside Heather Frederiksen, Claire Cashmore and Louise Watkin. At the Games she won her first Paralympic medal, a silver, in the 100 m backstroke S9. She won bronze in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay (34pts), swimming with Cashmore, Watkin and Susie Rodgers. A silver in 400 m freestyle S9, finishing behind South African Natalie Du Toit. Another silver came as she once again finished behind du Toit in the SM9 200 m individual medley in a new European record time of four minutes, 4.40 seconds.
