Song Lingling

Song Lingling

Song at the 2016 Paralympics
Personal information
Nationality	Chinese
Born	17 January 1996 China
Sport
Sport	swimming
Disability class	S6
Event(s)	Freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, medley[1]
Medal record Swimming Representing  China Paralympic Games 2012 London 100 m breaststroke SB5 2012 London 400 m freestyle S6 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m backstroke S6 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke SB5

Song Lingling (born 17 January 1996) is a Chinese Paralympic swimmer competing in the S6 class. She has won two silver and a gold paralympic medal.

Life

Song was born in 1996 and she lost the use of her legs due to polio.^[2] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London she won a silver medal in the SB5 100 m backstroke (S6).

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in London she won a gold medal in the 100 m backstroke (S6). Her team mate Lu Dong took the silver.^[3] In the 200 metres she took another silver medal after being beaten by Ellie Simmonds of Great Britain.

References

1. Song Lingling, Rio2016, Retrieved 9 September 2016
2. China's Song grabs 100m backstroke S6 gold in Rio, 9 September 2016, Xinhuanet.com, Retrieved 12 September 2016
3. Paralympics 2016: Storey clinches 12th gold as Dias thrills Rio crowd – as it happened, The Guardian, Retrieved 9 September 2016