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{{Short description|Canadian para swimmer}}
{{About|the Canadian para swimmer|the actress born Ruby Catherine Stevens|Barbara Stanwyck}}
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'''Ruby Stevens''' (born September 7, 2002) is a Canadian [[para swimmer]] born with complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia and generalized dystonia. She won gold in the women's [[S6 (classification)|S6]] 100-metre [[backstroke]] at the [[2023 Parapan American Games]] setting a new Parapan American Games record in the event.

== Early life and education ==
Stevens is diagnosed with [[Asperger syndrome]], [[attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]], and [[generalized anxiety disorder]], as well as having seizures due to [[epilepsy]]. She began [[synchronized swimming]] at age 2.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Jerome |first=Amanda |date=June 16, 2015 |title=Toronto-area girl overcomes special needs challenges to become synchronized swimming champion |url=http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/toronto-area-girl-overcomes-special-needs-challenges-to-become-synchronized-swimming-champion-171327965.html |access-date=January 1, 2024 |website=[[Yahoo News]] |language=en-CA}}</ref>

== Career ==
Stevens competed in synchronized swimming for the Variety Village Synchro Club<ref>{{Cite web |title=Calgary Aquabelles lead in solo and team at 2013 Espoir Nationals |url=https://www.gomotionapp.com/team/uana/page/news/477712/calgary-aquabelles-lead-in-solo-and-team-at-2013-espoir-nationals |access-date=January 1, 2024 |website=PanAm Aquatics}}</ref> and represented Canada in synchronized swimming at an international competition in Taiwan in 2015.<ref name=":0" />

Stevens won the B Final in the women's multi class 100 breaststroke at the Para Swimming World Series in Guadalajara, Mexico, her first international competition.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 19, 2023 |title=Stevens sets the tone with Parapan record on Day 1 in Santiago – Swimming Canada |url=https://www.swimming.ca/en/news/2023/11/19/stevens-sets-the-tone-with-parapan-record-on-day-1-in-santiago/ |access-date=January 1, 2024 |website=Swimming Canada}}</ref> She competed at the 2023 Parapan American Games in Santiago, Chile and won gold in the women's S6 100-metre backstroke. She won Canada's first gold at the Games<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heroux |first=Devin |date=November 18, 2023 |title=Ruby Stevens wins Canada's 1st gold at Parapan Am Games, Stephanie Chan its 1st medal |work=[[CBC.ca]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/parapanam/parapan-am-games-roundup-nov-18-1.7032860 |access-date=December 31, 2023}}</ref> and set a Games record at 1:30.41.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ruby Stevens wins Canada's first gold medal at 2023 Parapan Am Games {{!}} Canadian Paralympic Committee |url=https://paralympic.ca/news/ruby-stevens-wins-canadas-first-gold-medal-2023-parapan-am-games |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Paralympics Canada|date=19 November 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023 |title=GOLD MEDAL: Scarborough's Ruby Stevens sets Parapan Am record in 100m backstroke S6 victory |work=[[CBC.ca]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2285034563724}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Swimrankings|4946715}}
* {{Swimming Canada|ruby-stevens}}
* {{CPC profile|ruby-stevens}}

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[[Category:2002 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Canadian female backstroke swimmers]]
[[Category:Canadian disabled sportspeople]]
[[Category:S6-classified para swimmers]]
[[Category:Parapan American Games gold medalists for Canada]]
[[Category:Parapan American Games medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 2023 Parapan American Games]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games]]
[[Category:People with Asperger syndrome]]
[[Category:Autistic sportspeople]]
[[Category:People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]]
[[Category:People with epilepsy]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Scarborough, Ontario]]
[[Category:21st-century Canadian sportswomen]]

Ruby Stevens - Revision history

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