Madison de Rozario

Madison de Rozario
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born (1993-11-24) 24 November 1993
Perth, Western Australia
Sport
Disability class T53
Coached by Louise Sauvage
Medal record
Track and field (athletics)
Paralympic Games
2008 Beijing Women's 4x100 m T53/54
2016 Rio 800 metres - T53
2016 Rio Women's 4×400 metre relay - T53/54
IPC Athletics World Championships
2015 Doha 800m T53
2013 Lyon 800 m T53
2015 Doha 1500m T53

Madison de Rozario (born 24 November 1993)[1] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals.[2][3]

Personal

She has transverse myelitis, a neurological disease which inflames the spinal cord resulting in her using a wheelchair.

Athletics

Madison de Rozario competing at the 2011 World Championships warm-up meet in Sydney in January 2011

At the age of 14, she competed at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100 m T53/54 event as part of the Australian team. She also competed in the individual women's T54 100 m and 400 m events.[4] She was coached by former Paralympic athlete Frank Ponta and is currently coached by Louise Sauvage.[1] [5] She did not medal at the 2012 London Paralympics.[4] In 2012 and 2013, she won the Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race. [6]

de Rozario at the 2012 London Paralympics
de Rozario at the 2012 London Paralympics

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, in Lyon, France, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 800 m T53.[5]

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won the gold medal in the Women's 800m T54 in 1:53.86. It was her first gold medal at a major international competition. [7]She also won a bronze medal in the Women’s 1500m T54 in a time of 3:42.03. [8]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals. de Rozario won her first individual medal at the Paralympics by winning the silver medal in the Women's 800 m T53. In addition, was a member of the team that won the silver medal in the Women's 4×400 m Relay T53/54.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Madison de Rozario". Wheelchair Sports WA. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Madison de Rozario". Rio Paralympics Official site. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  4. 1 2 Results for Madison de Rozario from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
  5. 1 2 "IPC13: Two silver & two bronze won in Lyon". Athletics Australia News. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
  6. ↑ "Oz Day 10K HALL OF FAME" (PDF). Wheelchair Sports NSW website. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Doha2015". Athletics Australia website. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Doha 2015". Athletics Australia website. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
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