| Intro | American Paralympic swimmer of Georgian origin |
| Is |
Athlete Swimmer |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | female |
Elizabeth Stone (Georgian: ქეთევან ხურციძე; born as Ketevan Khurtsidze) is an American Paralympic swimmer of Georgian origin.
Biography
Elizabeth Stone was adopted on the 4th of July at age 4 from Kutaisi, Georgia. In the last year of high school she used to compete in track & field and also used to run a 25 kilometres (16 mi) race for River Bank Run in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She participated in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. At the 2006 World Championships she won a gold medal for 4×100 metre medley and a bronze one for the 100 metres (330 ft) backstroke. In 2008 Paralympics she won a silver medal for another 100 metre backstroke in Beijing, China and on 2010 World Championships she won another gold for 4×100 metre medley which was held at Eindhoven, Netherlands. Couple of years later she received a bronze medal for her participation at 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.