Isis Holt
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| Full name | Isis Holt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 July 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Old Xaverians Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Isis Holt (born 3 July 2001) is a Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She is affected by the condition cerebral palsy. She won two gold medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals and a bronze medal. [1][2]
Personal
Holt was born on 3 July 2001 with cerebral palsy.[3]
She goes to school at Melbourne Girls Grammar School and is in year 9
Athletics
Holt took up athletics in 2014.[4][5] At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha in her first major overseas competition, she won gold medals in world record time in two events: Women's 100m T35 (13.63 (w: +2.0) world record) and the Women's 200m T35 (28.57 (w: +1.5 world record).[5][6] At the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Canberra on 7 February 2016, she smashed her 200m T35 world record by running 28.38 (w: +0.2).[7] At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won silver medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T25 and a bronze medal in the Women's 4 x 100 m Relay T35-38.[1]
World Records
| Distance | Time / Distance |
Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200m T35 | 29.49 | Brisbane | 29 March 2015[8] |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.63 (w: +2.0) | Doha | 29 October 2015 [5] |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.57 (w: +1.5) | Doha | 24 October 2015[6] |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.38 (w: +0.2) | Canberra | 7 February 2016).[7] |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.57 (w: -0.8) | Sydney | 1 April 2016[9] |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.30 (w: +1.1) | Sydney | 3 April 2016[10] |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.51 | Gold Coast | 9 July 2016[11] |
Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability.".[5] She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and an Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3][4] She competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Recognition
- 2015 Victorian Junior Athlete of the Year [12]
- 2015 Athletics Australia Female Para-athlete of the Year [13]
References
- 1 2 "Isis Holt". Rio Paralympics Official site. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ↑ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- 1 2 "Isis Holt". Victorian Institute of Sport. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- 1 2 "Isis Holt". International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Doha 2015". Athletics Australia website. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- 1 2 "Doha 2015". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- 1 2 "IPC Grand Prix". Athletics Australia News, 7 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
- ↑ "WOMEN'S 200M T35" (PDF). Championships Doha Results Book. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "#AAC16". Athletics Australia News, April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Women 200 Metre Ambulant". Athletics Australia Results. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ↑ "Athletics Australia on Instagram: "A well deserved ice bath for Isis Holt ...". Athletics Australia Instagram. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ↑ "The Best Of The Best Honoured At The Victorian Sport Awards". Premier Victoria Website. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
- ↑ "Athletics Gala". Atjhletics Australia News, 10 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
External links
- Australian Paralympic Committee profile
- International Paralympic Committee profile
- Athletics Australia results