Ashleigh McConnell

Ashleigh Kate McConnell, (born 26 March 1996) is a limb deficient Paralympic swimmer of Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where she won gold medals in freestyle relay events.

Personal McConnell was born on 26 March 1996 in Melbourne, Victoria. She attended Sunbury College. In 2015, she was studying business at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, McConnell, together with her team of Emily Beecroft, Ellie Cole, and Isabella Vincent won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100m Freestyle 34 pts with a time of 4:26.82, two seconds behind the winners, Italy. She also qualified for the final of the Women's 100 m freestyle S9 where she finished sixth.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished 4th in the Women's 100 m freestyle S9.

McConnell's motto is "You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get".

McConnell was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2017.