Achievements
Queenslander Daniel Fox began swimming more than a decade ago after he found a love of water when he was a toddler. Since then he has successfully competed in two Paralympics, two Commonwealth Games, three ICP World Championships and three Pan Pacific Para Champs. At the 2014 Comm Games in Glasgow, Fox set a new world record in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14) – twice – first in the heats and then improving his own record in the final.
Most recently the 27-year-old took home a bronze medal at the 2018 Gold Coast Comm Games and a gold at the Pan Pacific Para Championships in Cairns – taking his gold medal tally to nine.
Paralympic Games
London, England 2012
- Won silver in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Rio, Brazil 2016
- Won bronze in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Commonwealth Games
Glasgow, Scotland 2014
- Won gold in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Gold Coast, Australia 2018
- Won bronze in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
World Championships
Eindhoven, Netherlands 2010
- Won silver in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Montreal, Canada 2013
- Won gold in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Glasgow, Scotland 2015
- Placed 4th in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
- Placed 8th in the Men’s 100m Backstroke (S14)
- Placed 16th in the Men’s 200m Individual Medley (S14)
Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships
Edmonton, Canada 2011
- Won gold in the Men’s 50m Freestyle (S14)
- Won gold in the Men’s 100m Freestyle (S14)
- Won gold in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
Pasadena, United States 2014
- Won gold in the Men’s 50m Freestyle (S14)
- Won gold in the Men’s 100m Freestyle (S14)
- Won gold in the Men’s 200m Freestyle (S14)
- Won bronze in the Men’s 100m Backstroke (S14)
Cairns, Australia 2018
- Won gold in the 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Relay (56pts)
- Won silver in the Men’s 200m freestyle (S14)
- Placed 7th in the Men’s 100m Butterfly (S14)
- Placed 11th in the Men’s 100m Backstroke (S14)
In The Pool
Paralympic Games
Commonwealth Games
IPC World Championships
Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships
Get to know Daniel
- What is something interesting that people don't know about you?
- What are your hobbies outside of swimming?
- My swimming career highlight
- Three words that best describe me
- What is your favourite swimming memory?
- What's on your pre-race playlist?
- What's something interesting about you that people don't know?
I am a business man - selling clothing.
I love cars and watching sports, including NRL, Rugby, NFL, MBA and AFL (they are my favourites!).
Selection onto my first Paralympic Games team in 2012 where I won a silver medal in the Men's 200m Freestyle (S14).
Happy
Loyal
Competitive
Winning a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and breaking the world record in the heats and then again in the finals.
'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor.
I have an English Staffy named Bow.
