Jeff Hardy (swimmer)

Jeffrey "Jeff" Lewis Hardy, OAM (born 13 March 1959) is an Australian swimmer with a vision impairment. Hardy was born in the New South Wales town of Narrabri. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Men's 100 m Butterfly B2 and Men's 400 m Freestyle B2 events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m Medley B2 event. On 16 November 1997 in Brisbane, he set a 1500 m S12 world record that has remained unsurpassed as of August 2017, with a time of 18:57.10. At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Men's 400 m Freestyle S12 event. In 2001, he was inducted into the Sunshine Coast Sports Hall of Fame.

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Male Paralympic swimmers for Australia

Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic gold medalists for Australia

Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia

Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors

Australian blind people

World record holders in paralympic swimming

Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia

Sportsmen from New South Wales

1959 births

Living people

Paralympic medalists in swimming

Australian male freestyle swimmers

Australian male butterfly swimmers

Australian male medley swimmers

S12-classified para swimmers

20th-century Australian people