| lucy art. (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
An American teenage female student who miraculously survived following being attacked by a shark 20 months before the competition won the swimming championship following exhausting rehabilitation.
Foreign media such as Britain’s Daily Star and Wisconsin’s media TMJ4 reported on Lucy Art (17), who won the Wisconsin State Swimming Championships under 24 division on the 28th.
Previously, in March 2021, 20 months before participating in the competition, Lucy was playing in the waters of Florida, USA with her cousins.
Then he felt something hit his leg and thought it was his cousin playing with him.
At this time, a shark jumped out of the water, and Lucy later recognized it as a shark. In an instant, the shark bit Lucy’s right wrist.
Lucy was covered in blood, but she managed to drive it away by calmly punching the shark in the mouth with her left hand. Although this shark is not known to be particularly aggressive towards humans, Lucy’s condition following she made it ashore was critical.
A major artery and four tendons in the wrist had been severed, and shark bite marks were also present on the leg. Fortunately, a nearby doctor came running and treated Lucy’s wound first.
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| (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
Lucy was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital. “I remember being scared of losing my hand in the ambulance,” Lucy recalled.
After the tear was sealed, Lucy began long-term physical therapy and rehabilitation to get her hand moving once more. He specifically focused on stretching the tendons in his right wrist.
As a result, Lucy finally returned safely as a swimmer last August. Then, in the preliminaries held last November, he broke his personal record by recording 23.45 seconds.
In addition, in the final, he additionally shortened 0.08 seconds, winning the championship with a record of 23.37 seconds, and succeeded in making a comeback.
“I thought my hands would never work the way they used to once more,” Lucy said in an interview following winning.
He showed a positive side, saying, “But thinking back, the shark attack motivated me to want to swim better and to become better.”
At the same time, he said, “I went to the sea only once following that. I visited the same place, but it was really hard.” “My wrist condition is worse than before the raid, but I plan to focus on being active in the short-distance butterfly category rather than short-distance freestyle in the future.”
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| (Captured from TMJ4, Wisconsin, USA) |
