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Susie Rodgers

Susannah "Susie" Rodgers (born on 9 August 1983) is a British Paralympic swimmer. She competes in S7 classification events and won three bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Personal life
Rodgers was born on 9 August 1983 in Stockton-on-Tees, England. She was born without a fully formed arm or leg on the left sid of her body.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in modern languages from the University of Newcastle, and is able to speak Catalan, French, German, Italian and Spanish. She combines her swimming career with a job as a Project Officer for the British Council.

Swimming
Rodgers first learned to swim when living in Egypt as a child but did not take up competitive swimming until she was inspired by watching the British team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. She competes in the S7 Paralympic classification for swimmers with a physical impairment.

Her first appearance at an international event came at the 2011 IPC European Championships held in Berlin, Germany. At the meet Rodgers won six medals; five gold and one silver. She won individual gold in the the 400 metres freestyle, in a new European record time, and relay gold in the 34pt 4×100 m freestyle alongside Louise Watkin, Lauren Steadman and Claire Cashmore. Her second individual gold medal came in the 100 metres backstroke as she set a a time of 1:26.09, a new British record, to beat German world record holder Kirsten Bruhn into second place. She won her fourth gold medal by setting a new European record time of 36.74 seconds in the 50 metres butterfly, and folowed it with her fifth in the 100 metres freestyle. She also won a silver medal in the 50 metres freestyle.

She was selected to compete for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, as part of a 44-swimmer squad. At the Games she competed in the 50, 100 and 400 freestyle, the 50 meters butterfly, the 100 metres backstroke and the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Rodgers won bronze medals in the 100 metres freestyle and the relay alongside Cashmore, Watkin and Stephanie Millward. She completed a hatrick of bronze medals by finishing third in the 400 metres freestyle, setting new European records in both the heats and the final, to win Great Britain's one hundreth medal of the Games. She also achieved finishes of fourth in the butterfly and sixth in the backstroke.