Ellie Simmonds is a British swimmer who holds ten world records in addition to four paralympic gold medals.
She gained notoriety when, at the Beijing Games in 2008, she won her first Paralympic medal at the age of 13. At the age of 14, Ellie went on to become the youngest recipient of an MBE and the youngest winner of the BBC Young Sports Personality Of The Year award in 2008.
She is currently a member of the BBC broadcast crew, and she covered every swimming event at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. Ellie was born on November 11th, 1994 in Walsall and spent her childhood in the West Midlands town of Aldridge.
Ellie Simmonds parents: Val Simmonds, Steve Simmonds
Steve and Val Simmonds are Ellie Simmonds’ parents. Simmonds moved to Swansea, Wales, with her mother Val when she was 11 years old so that she could train with coach Billy Pye in a 50-meter pool.
Ellie continued to make weekend trips back to her family’s hometown of Walsall to see her father, brother, and three sisters who were still there. Ellie began swimming when she was five years old for Ashley Cox’s Boldmere Swimming Club in Sutton Coldfield. She afterwards enrolled in Loughborough University in England to study psychology.
