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

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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