Name: Jamal Hill

Sport: Swimming

Event(s): 50-meter Freestyle, 100-meter Freestyle, 100-meter Backstroke

Classification: S10, SB9, SM10

Height: 6-4

DOB: 2/24/1995

Birthplace: Los Angeles, Calif.

Hometown: Inglewood, Calif.

High School: Junipero Serra High School (San Mateo, Calif.) '13

College: Hiram College, Physics

Team/Club: Golden Rebel Aquatics

Paralympic Experience

• One-time Paralympian (2020), one-time Paralympic medalist (Bronze)
• Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, Bronze (50-meter freestyle)

World Championship Experience

• Most Recent: 2022 (SILVER, 50-meter freestyle, mixed 4x100-meter freestyle relay 34 pt.; 4th, 100-meter freestyle)
• Years of Participation: 2022
• Medals – 2 (2 silver)
• Silver – 2022 (50-meter freestyle, mixed 4x100-meter freestyle relay 34 pt.)

Other Career Highlights

• 2019 World Para Swimming World Series Indianapolis, 2nd (100-meter freestyle)
• 2018 U.S. Paralympics Swimming Para National Championships, 1st (100-meter freestyle, 50-meter freestyle), 2nd (100-meter backstroke)

Personal: At a young age Hill struggled with some basic movements and was hospitalized for a few weeks as a young boy after becoming paralyzed when he got the flu...It wasn’t until he was 23 that his parents told him specifically that he had a condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological condition that affects the muscles in his arms and legs...Hill has a goal of teaching one million people how to swim through his foundation, Swim Uphill...Son of James Hill and Sandra Floyd-Hill...Trains at the Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena, California, where he was once used to be a club member...Hobbies include business building, marketing, branding, picnics, reading, listening to audio books, coaching and surfing.

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