Xenia Palazzo
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| Full name | Xenia Francesca Palazzo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 April 1998 Palermo, Italy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Xenia Francesca Palazzo (born 29 April 1998) is an Italian Paralympic swimmer of Russian descent who competes in international level events, She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics,[1] and 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 100m Backstroke - S8, Women's 200 individual medley SM8 winning a silver medal, Women's 4×100 freestyle relay P34 winning a gold medal, Women's 400 freestyle S8 winning a bronze medal and in Women's 50 metre freestyle S8, winning a bronze medal.[2]
Life
[edit]She was born with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy which has caused her to not have enough oxygen and blood due to disseminated intravascular coagulation and had a brain haemorrhage which has resulted in quadriplegia mainly on the right side of her body.[3][4]
Her highest achievements are becoming a World silver medalist and a European champion, in 200 meter medley and 400 meter freestyle.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Xenia Francesca Palazzo - Swimming | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Swimming PALAZZO Xenia Francesca". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ "Xenia Francesca Palazzo - IPC Athlete Bio". ipc.infostradasports.com. 8 September 2020. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
- ^ "Biografia". Xenia Palazzo - Personal Website (in Italian). 8 September 2020.
External links
[edit]- Xenia Francesca Palazzo at the International Paralympic Committee
- Xenia Palazzo at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Xenia Francesca Palazzo at the Comitato Italiano Paralimpico (in Italian)
- Official website (in Italian)
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Palermo
- Sportspeople from Verona
- Paralympic swimmers for Italy
- Italian female freestyle swimmers
- Italian female medley swimmers
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming European Championships
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Italy
- Paralympic silver medalists for Italy
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Italian people of Russian descent
- S8-classified para swimmers
- 21st-century Italian sportswomen