2024 Paris Paralympic Games Moreton Bay coverage: Lakeisha Patterson finals action

File photo: courtesy of Delly Carr/Swimming Australia

Caboolture’s Lakeisha Patterson has swum in the women’s 200m IM SM9 final at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games this morning (AEST).

Patterson, who qualified seventh, raced from lane one and finished fifth in the final with a time of 2:39.99. The race was won by favourite and world champion Zsofia Konkoly, whose time was 2:33.31.

Patterson trained at Southern Cross, Lawnton and Burpengary, and is now with the Paralympic hub at UniSC.

She took silver in the 400m freestyle S9 event earlier in the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games program.

Today’s women’s 200m IM S9 final was Patterson’s last individual event at the Games.