Kelly Cartwright

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Kelly Cartwright
File:180411 - Kelly Cartwright - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Cartwright
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born (1989-04-22) 22 April 1989 (age 34)
Residence Geelong
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Athletics
Medal record
Athletics
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Women's Long Jump F42/44
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Women's 100 m T42

Kelly Cartwright, OAM (born 22 April 1989) is an Australian athlete. She has won two medals at two Paralympics.

Personal

Kelly Anne Cartwright was born on 22 April 1989,[1] and is from Geelong.[1][2][3][4] When she was fifteen, she had a form of cancer called synovial sarcoma. Part of her right leg needed to be amputated due to the cancer[1][5][6] because chemotherapy was not an option.[1] She has a prosthetic leg that she started using in high school.[1] Her regular walking leg cost A$62,000 and needed to be charged every night.[6] Before losing her leg, she played netball.[1][6] She climbed Mt Kilimanjaro in 2009.[1] As of 2012, she works as a receptionist.[1] She is also an Australian Paralympic Committee and Make-A-Wish Foundation ambassador.[1] In 2012, she was named one of Zoo Weekly's sexiest Paralympians.[7]

Cartwright appeared on the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars.[8] She has a son (born 4 January 2016) with her partner Ryan.[9]

Athletics

Cartwright is a T42 classified runner.[1][10] She is coached by Tim Matthews.[1] In 2008, she had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport.[11] As of 2012, she has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport.[12]

Cartwright started competing in 2007.[1] She first represented Australia in 2008.[1] She represented Australia at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.[13] Making the 100 metre finals, she finished sixth[1] racing on a carbon fibre leg.[6] Going into the Games, she trained in Geelong.[6] She competed in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, where she finished first while setting a world record in the 100 m event.[1][10] At the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships, she set a world record of 16.26 seconds in the 100 m T42 event.[1][10] In 2012, she was the world champion in the T42 100 m and long jump events.[5][10] At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Long Jump F42/44 event and a silver medal in the Women's 100 m T42 event.[13]

Recognition

Cartwright with athletics teammates at the 2012 Australian Paralympian of the Year ceremony

Cartwright was a finalist for the 2012 Australian Paralympian of the Year.[14] She was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[4]

References

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  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Results for Kelly Cartwright from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
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