Thomas Kane onto dais again in Rio

Budding NSWIS swim star Tiffany Thomas Kane has continued her meteoric rise through the Paralympic swimming ranks by winning her second bronze medal in as many nights in Rio.

The 15-year-old won bronze in the women’s S6 50m freestyle event to compliment the bronze medal she claimed on day 2 in the 50m butterfly.

The year 9 student from Ravenswood School for Girls clocked 34.41 to finish just behind the Ukrainian pair of Yelyzaveta Mereshko (33.43) and Viktoriia Savtsova (33.68) and became the first Australian to win multiple medals at the Rio Paralympics.

Thomas Kane, who was born with hypochondroplasia and is a girl of short stature, will now enjoy a day off before returning to the pool to swim the 200m individual medley and then her favoured 100m breaststroke, an event she is the reigning world champion in.

In other finals at the pool, Sean Russo was sixth in the men’s SM13 200m IM, while four-time Paralympian Prue Watt finished eighth in the corresponding women’s event. Fellow NSWIS athlete Jenna Jones was 12^th in Watt’s event and Kate Wilson was 18^th in the heats of the S6 50m freestyle.

Watt, Russo and Jones will be back in the pool on day 4 alongside a host of other NSWIS swimmers including Tom Hodge, Paige Leonhardt and Maddison Elliott.