Ugandan teen Paralympian enjoys busting stereotypes | The Express Tribune
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KAMPALA: At just 14 she was the youngest Paralympian at the Tokyo Games. And Ugandan swimmer Husnah Kukundakwe faces an equally tough test next year in Paris, but the 16-year-old said she is used to smashing stereotypes -- starting with her own mum. Born without her right forearm and with an impairment to her left hand, Kukundakwe was three years old when she began paddling in a pool in her local kindergarten. "I would just go there, play around, just beat around the water, and I felt nice. I love being in the water," she said. Her mother, however, wasn't so enthusiastic. "In the beginning my mum wasn't supportive... because she was worried that I won't be able to swim," Kukundakwe told AFP. "After realising I wasn't going to stop going into the water, she eventually gave in," Kukundakwe said on the sidelines of a training session in a suburb of Uganda's capital Kampala. She soon won her first contest, aged nine, ra