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Claire Keefer
2016 Australian Paralympic Team Portrait
Personal information
Full nameClaire Keefer
NationalityAustralian
Born (1995-05-05) 5 May 1995 (age 29)
Medal record
Women's para athletics
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio Shot put F41
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Doha Shot put F41
Silver medal – second place 2017 London Shot put F41
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Dubai Shot put F41

Claire Keefer (born 5 May 1995) is a short stature athlete from Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics where she won a bronze medal.[1] She has won a silver and bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Personal

She was born on 5 May 1995 with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature.[2] Her parents Lindsay and Sue Keefer live in Withcott, Queensland.[3] She attended St Ursula College in Toowoomba.[4] She lives mostly in Withcott, Queensland. She works part-time as a child care worker.[3]

Career

Keefer competes in the F41 classification and started athletics in 2009.[2] She was ineligible to compete at the 2012 London Paralympics due to being under 18.[2] In the F41 classicification the only athletics events for women are the discus throw and shot put.[3] in 2015, Keefer won the silver medal in discus and bronze medal in shot put at an IPC Grand Prix meet in Dubai.[5]

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.[6] She has received financial assistance from Aim For the Stars Foundation, the Layne Beachley Foundation.[7] She visits the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane four times per week to undertake technical coaching.[3] Her philosophy is "Strength in size".[2]

She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in the Women's Shout Put F41 with a throw of 8.16 m.[8]

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a throw of 8.44m.[9] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she threw the shot put 9.19 to win the bronze medal Women's Shot Put F41. [10]

References

  1. ^ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d "Claire Keefer". International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d "Paralympic dreams for Claire Keefer". The Morning Bulletin. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  4. ^ Leslie, Cameron (5 February 2010). "Athlete secures gold at titles". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. ^ Slatter, Trent (15 October 2015). "Keefer on the road to Rio Paralympics". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. ^ "Doha2015". Athletics Australia website. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. ^ "Claire Keefer". Aim for the Stars Foundation website. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Athletics results". Rio Paralympics official website. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  9. ^ Ryner, Sascha. "Holt storms home in world record time". Athletics Australia News, 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  10. ^ "World Para Athletics Championships Dubai - Day 8 Recap". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

External links

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