Claire Keefer
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| Full name | Claire Keefer | |||||||||
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 Australia | |||||||||
| Born | 5 May 1995 | |||||||||
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Claire Keefer (born 5 May 1995) is a short stature athlete from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.
Personal
She was born on 5 May 1995 with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature.[1] Her parents Lindsay and Sue Keefer live in Charleville, Queensland.[2] She attended St Ursula College in Toowoomba.[3] She lives mostly in Toowoomba, Queensland. She works part-time as a child care worker.[2]
Career
Keefer competes in the F41 classification and started athletics in 2009.[1] She was ineligible to compete at the 2012 London Paralympics due to being under 18.[1] In the F41 classicification the only athletics events for women are the discus throw and shot put.[2] in 2015, Keefer won the silver medal in discus and bronze medal in shot put at an IPC Grand Prix meet in Dubai.[4]
At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a national record throw of 7.62m. She finished fourth in the Women's Discus F41.[5] She has received financial assistance from Aim For the Stars Foundation, the Layne Beachley Foundation.[6] She visits the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane four times per week to undertake technical coaching.[2] Her philosophy is "Strength in size".[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Claire Keefer". International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "Paralympic dreams for Claire Keefer". The Morning Bulletin. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ Leslie, Cameron (5 February 2010). "Athlete secures gold at titles". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ Slatter, Trent (15 October 2015). "Keefer on the road to Rio Paralympics". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "Doha2015". Athletics Australia website. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ↑ "Claire Keefer". Aim for the Stars Foundation website. Retrieved 27 October 2015.