{{short description|British Paralympic swimmer (born 1957)}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Tim Reddish<br />{{nobold|{{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|DL}}}} | image = | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | alt = | caption = | fullname = Timothy Robert Reddish<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/580999/new-years-honours-2017-full-list.pdf|format=PDF|date=30 December 2016|accessdate=30 December 2016|publisher=Government of the United Kingdom|title=New Year's Honours list 2017|page=18}}</ref> | nicknames = | national_team = {{flag|Great Britain}} | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1957|4|12}} | birth_place = Nottingham, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = <!-- {{convert|}} (yyyy) --> | weight = <!-- {{convert|}} (yyyy) --> | strokes = | classification = B2 | club = | collegeteam = | coach = | show-medals = yes | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}} {{MedalSilver| 1992 Barcelona | 100 m&nbsp;Butterfly B1-2}} {{MedalSilver| 1996 Atlanta | 200 m&nbsp;Medley B1}} {{MedalSilver | 2000 Sydney | 4x100&nbsp;m Medley S11-13}} {{MedalBronze| 1992 Barcelona | 100 m&nbsp;Freestyle B2}} {{MedalBronze| 1996 Atlanta | 100 m&nbsp;Freestyle B1}} }}

'''Timothy Robert Reddish''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|DL}} (born 12 April 1957) is an English sports administrator and former Paralympic swimmer who was the Chairman of the British Paralympic Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paralympics.org.uk/games/paralympians-club/tim-reddish|title=Tim Reddish|accessdate=14 November 2015|publisher=paralympics.org.uk}}</ref> Governing Board member International Paralympic Committee. He won a total of five medals at three Paralympic Games.

==Personal history== Reddish was born in Nottingham in 1957. He became a leisure centre manager for Nottingham City Council and a sports development officer. In 1988, at the age of 31 he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary degenerative condition affecting his sight. By 1996 he lost his vision completely, but in 2013 he underwent surgery in which an artificial retina was inserted into his eye which has enabled him to regain partial sight.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

==Swimming career== Reddish had been a keen swimmer as a youth, and when his sight deteriorated he decided to become classified as a disability swimmer. Initially classed as a B2 athlete with reduced vision, he entered his first international tournament, the European Championships in Switzerland, in 1989. There he won 11 medals, including two gold. Reddish first represented Great Britain at a Summer Paralympics at Barcelona in 1992. In Spain Reddish won two medals, a silver in the 100m butterfly B1-B2 and a bronze in the 100m freestyle.<ref name="Paralympic">{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=reddish&fname=tim&gender=all|title=Athlete Search Results: Reddish, Tim|accessdate=14 November 2015|publisher=paralympic.org}}</ref> Four years later he competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta. Competing in five events, and now swimming as a B1 athlete (completely blind), he matched his achievements from Barcelona with another silver and bronze, this time in the 200m medley and the 100m freestyle.<ref name="Paralympic"/> His final Paralympics as a competitor were the 2000 Games in Sydney. There he collected his fifth and final medal, winning silver in the men's 4 × 100 m Medley for S11-13 category swimmers.<ref name="Paralympic"/>

==As sports administrator== In 1998 Reddish was appointed the National coordinator of British Swimming and in 2003 he became National Performance Director for the Disability Swim Team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paralympics.org.uk/about-us/structure/staff/tim-reddish|title=Tim Reddish, OBE|accessdate=14 November 2015|publisher=paralympics.org.uk}}</ref> Following the success of the British team at Beijing he left his post as Performance Director to become Chairman of the British Paralympic Association. He was also a board member of London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). Tim is currently a Governing Board Member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

==Awards== In 2001 Reddish was appointed a MBE for his services to swimming.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} In 2005 he was awarded Freeman of the City of Nottingham.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/4580173.stm|title=Reddish given Nottingham honour|accessdate=14 November 2015|publisher=BBC Sport|date=25 May 2005}}</ref> He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to sport.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61803|supp=y|page=N9|date=31 December 2016}}</ref> appointed at Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (DL) 2019.

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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20151117032752/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&gender=all&name=Reddish&fname=Tim Tim Reddish at the International Paralympic Committee]

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