Katherine Downie

Katherine Rose Downie (born 12 January 1996) is an Australian Paralympian. Kat first represented Australia in 2011. Kat represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming and was a member of both the Gold medal Women's 34 point 4 x 100 free and 4 × 100 medley relay teams. Kat placed fourth in both her pet events the 100 backstroke and 200IM.

Katherine lives with mild right hemiplegic spastic cerebral palsy and is an Australian S10 classified swimmer.

Personal Downie was born on 12 January 1996 in Aberdeen, Scotland. all at the 2011 Australian National Open Short Course Championships. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She attended a Paralympic farewell ceremony at Perth's State Basketball Centre in late July. She competed in nine events and won two gold medals as a member of the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle and 4 × 100 m Medley Relay (34 points) teams.

Competing at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she won a silver medal in the Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM10 and bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S10.

She was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games." In 2013 and 2014, she was awarded Wheelchair Sports WA Junior Sports Star of the Year.