Australian swimmer Thomas Gallagher who nearly lost his life at the Tokyo par Olympics has now claimed his country's first gold medal in Paris 3 years ago the 25-year-old suffered a pancreatic attack after earning Bronze in the S10 400 met freestyle event preventing him from standing on the podium reflecting on its Journey Gallagher said in Tokyo I was a different athlete I had a lot of medical issues in my pancreas so after the 400 meter I ended up in hospital for about a month and nearly died I wasn't able to go on the podium that night but tonight makes up for it in a stunning comeback the newly crowned gold medalist powered through the final stretch of the men's S10 50 m freestyle finishing with a time of 2340 seconds