page_title: Ahmed Kelly
section_title: Personal
hierarchical_section_title: Ahmed Kelly / Personal
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Australian Paralympic team member Ahmed Kelly at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London
context_page_description: Ahmed Kelly is an Iraqi-born Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, and he competed at the 2012 London Paralympics.
context_section_description: Nicknamed "Liquid Nails", Kelly was born on 18 November 1991 in Baghdad, Iraq with a double arm and leg deficiency.  Until the age of seven, he lived in at Baghdad's Mother Teresa Orphanage with his brother, Emmanuel who has a similar disability. Moira Kelly, on her own, met the brothers in 1998 and with her parents' help, brought them to Victoria, Australia in 2000 to get medical care for their disability. Kelly's treatment involved having parts of his legs removed that were deficient, and then being fitted with prosthesis. Moira adopted the brothers in 2000. In 2009, he became an Australian citizen. He attended Carey Baptist Grammar School in Kew, Melbourne. He was featured on the ABC's "Race to London".
  In 2013 he commenced university studying Bachelor of Arts at La Trobe University in Melbourne and dreams of working in the media as a sports commentator in the future.
  His brother has appeared on Australia's X-Factor. He has Bangladeshi-born twin sisters who were conjoined at birth. They attend his swimming meets to cheer for Kelly.
  Kelly played Australian rules football for a team in Kilmore, Victoria. When playing, he did not wear prosthetic arms. He played Australian Rules for his school's Year 7/8 team.
caption: Kelly at the 2012 London Paralympics
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