In November 2009, her classification was revisited due to deterioration of her vision and she was deemed eligible to compete.
White never included an induced form of diabetes in her original classification system; class A diabetes was, in her scheme, subclinical or chemical diabetes that nonetheless preceded pregnancy.
The lone American team this year comprises Wendy Fisher, 38, a former Olympic skier, and Emily Miller, 43, a professional driver who won her classification in last year's Baja 1,000, an off-road endurance event in Mexico.
By 1997, she started taking the sport more seriously and began setting records in Australian athletics for her classification.
White first described her classification system in a report entitled, "Pregnancy Complicating Diabetes".
Against official British Swimming/ASA policy, she has included the S17 classification in her gala.
She won European and World titles in the trunk and arms classification in her inaugural season as a paracanoeist in 2013 and continued her success in 2014, with further European and World crowns.
That year she received a player award from the Dandenong Rangers and was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) in her 1 point disability classification in the WNWBL and was named to the league's All Star Five.
A caption on Friday with a photograph of a spotted eagle ray that killed a woman when it leaped from the water and jumped in her boat gave an incorrect classification from The Associated Press for the animal.
Ainsworth herself was the first to find difficulties in fitting all infant behaviour into the three classifications used in her Baltimore study.
