Timothy Disken

Timothy Malcolm Disken, (born 3 November 1996) is an Australian paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships and won bronze in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle S9, a silver medal in the men's S9 50m freestyle and a bronze medal in the men's 200m individual medley SM9. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Personal Disken was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 3 November 1996 and has cerebral palsy. He has an older brother Jeff who played water polo at a national level in Australia. Disken also likes to play piano and learned the piano for 12 years.

Sporting career Disken began participating in swimming aged 4, as a form of therapy for his cerebral palsy and started to compete in the sport at age 10. He made his senior international debut at the 2014 Para Pan Pacific Championships in Pasadena CA Where he won bronze in the Men's S9 400m freestyle and gold in the Men 100 LC Meter breaststroke.

In 2015, Disken represented Australia at the IPC Swimming World Championships, winning bronze in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with 34 points. Disken's also competed in the Men's Freestyle and finished fifth.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Disken qualified for both the Men's 50 m freestyle S9 and Men's 100 m breaststroke SB8 finals. He finished seventh in both events. In the Men's 4x100m Medley 34 pts, he swam together with Ben Popham, Timothy Hodge, and William Martin. His team won the silver medal in a time of 4:07.70, just over a second behind the winners, RPC, who set a new world record.

He was selected to compete at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Disken is coached by Yuriy Vdovychenko at the National Training Centre in Canberra. In 2017 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.