Liam Bekric

Liam Bekric (born 7 January 2001) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with a vision impairment. Bekric represented Australia for the first time at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Personal Bekric was born on 7 January 2001 in Adelaide, South Australia, to parents Dragan and Tracy, and is brother to Josh, Riley and Darcy. He was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary, degenerative eye condition that results in tunnel vision and can lead to blindness. It was detected when he was six years old. Bekric's great-uncle and father have the same condition. Bekric was just 13 years old, the youngest competitor at the event, and he was racing competitors 10 years his senior. He was just 0.1 of a second off getting silver.

At the 2015 Australian Swimming Championships, he made the final in the Men's 50m breaststrokes finishing fifth and the Men's 50m butterfly finishing seventh.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, Bekric finished fourth in the final of Men's 100m Breaststroke SB13, but did not progress to the finals in the Men's 400m Freestyle S13, Men's 100m Backstroke S13 or Men's 200m Individual Medley SM13.

In 2017, he was inducted into Swimming South Australia Hall of Fame.