Ian Jaryd Silverman (born 1995) is an American swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland. He has mild cerebral palsy and won a gold medal in the S10 400 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. At the Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships in 2014, Silverman broke the S10 world record in the event, with a time of 4:03.57[1] As of August 2015[update], Silverman also holds para-swimming world record in the 400 m Individual Medley.[2]
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Full name | Ian Jaryd Silverman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Crazy Legs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | November 6, 1995 Baltimore, Maryland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Silverman now swims at NCAA Division I college University of Southern California.[3][4][5]
Silverman did not compete at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, after a classification review deemed him not impaired enough to compete in his preferred events.[6][7]
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