Isis Holt

Isis Holt
Personal information
Full name Isis Holt
Nationality Australia
Born (2001-07-03) 3 July 2001
Sport
Club Old Xaverians Athletics Club
Medal record
Track and field T35
Competitor for Australia
IPC Athletics World Championships
2015 Doha 100m – T35
2015 Doha 200m – T35

Isis Holt (born 3 July 2001) is a cerebral palsy Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.

Personal

Holt was born on 3 July 2001.[1] She attends Melbourne Girls Grammar School.[2]

Athletics

Holt took up athletics in 2014.[3][4] 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). [4] [5] 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).[6] At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.

World Records

Distance Time /
Distance		 Location Date
Women's 200m T3529.49Brisbane29 March 2015[7]
Women's 100m T3513.63 (w: +2.0)Doha29 October 2015 [4]
Women's 200m T3528.57 (w: +1.5)Doha24 October 2015[5]
Women's 200m T3528.38 (w: +0.2)Canberra7 February 2016).[8]
Women's 100m T3513.57 (w: -0.8) Sydney1 April 2016[9]
Women's 200m T3528.30 (w: +1.1)Sydney3 April 2016[10]

Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability.".[4] She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and an Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[1][3] Her goal is to compete at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Recognition

References

  1. 1 2 "Isis Holt". Victorian Institute of Sport. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Girls streak to success giving diverse MGGS sports a workout". EducationHQ websire. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Isis Holt". International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Doha 2015". Athletics Australia website. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Doha 2015". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "IPC Grand Prix". Athletics Australia News, 7 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "WOMEN'S 200M T35" (PDF). Championships Doha Results Book. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "IPC Grand Prix". Athletics Australia News, 7 February 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "#AAC16". Athletics Australia News, April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "Women 200 Metre Ambulant". Athletics Australia Results. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "The Best Of The Best Honoured At The Victorian Sport Awards". Premier Victoria Website. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Athletics Gala". Atjhletics Australia News, 10 April 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.

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