Eleanor "Ellie" Robinson

Eleanor "Ellie" Robinson (born 30 August 2001) is an English retired swimmer. Competing in SB6

On 14 December 2016, it was announced that she had won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

Robinson was recognised in the 2017 New Year Honours, being appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to swimming.

Having competed at the delayed 2020 Paralympics, Robinson announced her retirement from competitive swimming in October 2021. In November 2012 she was diagnosed with Perthes hip disease which requires her to undergo daily physiotherapy. At the tournament she set a world record in the 100m butterfly, with a time of 1:26.30. She followed this with her first major international tournament, representing Great Britain at the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships in Funchal. There Robinson entered five events, winning medals in four of them. In the 200m Individual Medley (SM6) she finished fourth, but took bronze medals in the 50m, 100m and 400m freestyle events. In the 50m butterfly she was beaten into second place by the then Paralympic champion, Oksana Khrul of Ukraine. Khrul, who set the then 50m world record of 36.05 at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, improved her time with a result of 35.48. Robinson's silver medal time was 35.66, also under the 2012 World record.

Robinson won the gold medal in the women's S6 50m butterfly event at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, in a new Paralympics record time of 35.58 seconds, beating 2012 champion Oksana Khrul into second place. She also won a bronze in the 100m equivalent at the same Games.

Robinson won the gold medal in the women's S7 50m butterfly event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, beating Canadian Sarah Mehainl into second place.

At the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships in Dublin, Robinson won the women's S6 50m butterfly gold, ahead of Ireland's Nicole Turner and Ukraine's Oksana Khrul.