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Maddison Elliott
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Elliott
Personal information
Full nameMaddison Gae Elliott
Nationality Australia
Born (1998-11-03) 3 November 1998 (age 25)
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClassificationsS8, SB8, SM8
ClubNU Swim
CoachPaul Sharman
Medal record
Women's paralympic swimming
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 4 × 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 50 m freestyle S8
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 100 m freestyle S8
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 400 m freestyle S8
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2013 Montreal 50 m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2013 Montreal 100 m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 50m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 100m freestyle S8
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 100m backstroke S8
Gold medal – first place 2015 Glasgow 4 × 100m freestyle relay 34 points
Silver medal – second place 2013 Montreal 400 m freestyle S8
Silver medal – second place 2015 Glasgow 4 × 100m medley relay 34 points
Silver medal – second place 2015 Glasgow 400m freestyle S8
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Glasgow 100m butterfly S8
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 100 m freestyle S8

Maddison Gae Elliott OAM (born 3 November 1998 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist by winning bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 100 m freestyle S8 events. She then became the youngest Australian gold medallist when she was a member of the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 points team.[1] She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[2]

Personal

Maddison Gae Elliott was born on 3 November 1998.[3][4] She has right side cerebral palsy as a result of a neonatal stroke, and was diagnosed with the condition when she was four years old.[3] In addition to swimming, she participated in athletics, and by 2010 held six Australian age group classification records.[5] In 2012, she was living in Gillieston Heights, New South Wales, and attending Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College. She has an older sister Dimity Elliott.[3]

Swimming

Elliott is an S8 classified swimmer who was ranked first in the world in the S8 50 m backstroke in 2012.[3] She is a member of Nuswim Swimming Club,[5] started swimming when she was six months old,[5] and commenced competitive swimming in 2009. She made her national team debut that same year at the Youth Paralympic Games, where she won five gold medals.[3]

By 2010, she held three Australian age group classification records,[5] and the 2010 New South Wales Multi-Class Long Course Swimming Championships, she had five first-place finishes.[5] She represented Australia at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships, and later that year competed in the Canberra hosted Australian Multi-Class Age Swimming Championships. At that event, she won a bronze, five silver and three gold medals.[3] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in swimming.[6][7]

Elliott interviewed after being named 2012 Junior Athlete of the Year at the Australian Paralympian of the Year ceremony

On 31 August 2012 at the London Aquatics Centre, Elliott slashed 23 seconds off her personal best time to win a bronze medal in the S8 400 m freestyle. She became, at age 13, the youngest ever Australian to win a Paralympic medal, a record formerly held by Elizabeth Edmondson.[8][9] She went on to win silver in S8 50 m freestyle, bronze in the S8 100 m Freestyle, and gold in the Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay – 34 Points.[10][11] Afterwards, she met with Prince Harry and gave him a Lizzie the Frill Neck Lizard,[12] the mascot of the Australian Paralympic Committee and Australia's Paralympic Teams.[13] This resulted in the Australian Chef de Mission, Jason Hellwig, officially presenting Lizzie to the Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), Lord Coe, who gave him a Mandeville in return.[14]

In November 2012, Elliott and Rheed McCracken, the youngest members of the 2012 Paralympic Team, were together named the Paralympic Junior Athlete of the Year.[15] She won gold medals in the Women's 50 m and 100 m Freestyle S8 events and a silver medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S8 at the August 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal, Canada,[16][17] and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[4]

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Elliott won a gold medal in the women's 100 m S8 freestyle in a world record time of 1:05.32, breaking the record set by Jessica Long in 2012.[18]

At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, she won the gold medals in the women's 50 m freestyle S8, women's 100 m freestyle S8 in a world record time of 1.04.71, women’s 100 m backstroke S8 and women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 points, silver medals in the women's 400 m freestyle S8 and women's 4 × 100 m medley relay 34 points and a bronze medal in the women's 100 m butterfly S8.[19][20][21][22][23] Her success at the IPC World Championships led to her being awarded Swimming Australia's 2015 Paralympic Swimmer of the Year.[24] In November 2015, she was awarded the New South Wales Institute of Sport Regional Athlete of the Year.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "Golden girls win relay and break world record". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Swimming Australia Paralympic Squad Announcement". Swimming Australia News, 13 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Maddison Elliott". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e Kelly, Lauren (11 November 2010). "Maddison's eyes on Paralympics". Herald Sun. Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Paralympic swim team revealed". Australian Paralympic Committee. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  7. ^ "Cowdrey leads Paralympic swim team". ABC Grandstand Sport – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  8. ^ Wald, Tom (1 September 2012). "Swimmer Maddison Elliott becomes Australia's youngest Paralympic medallist at 13 years old". Fox Sports. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  9. ^ Paxinos, Stathi (27 August 2012). "Time for a young talent to shine". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  10. ^ "Maddison Elliott". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  11. ^ Maddison Elliott at the International Paralympic Committee Edit this at Wikidata
  12. Maddison Elliott at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived) Edit this at Wikidata. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  13. ^ "Australian Paralympic swimmer Maddison Elliott offers feigned 'apology' to Prince Harry". News Limited. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  14. ^ "Lizzie the Lizard". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  15. ^ "Coe: No Paralympic Surprises So Far". Around the Rings. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  16. ^ "Freney named Australia's Paralympian of the Year". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 22 July 2013.
  17. ^ "Dreams come true at IPC World Championships". Swimming Australia News. 15 August 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  18. ^ "Twenty-seven medals for the Australian swim team in Montreal". Swimming Australia News. 19 August 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  19. ^ "Maddison Elliott breaks world record at Commonwealth Games 2014 in swimming for Australia". 26 July 2014. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  20. ^ "Ellie's world record double in golden start for Dolphins in Glasgow". Swimming Australia News, 14 July 2015.
  21. ^ "Six golds and one world record for Ukraine at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympic Committee News, 16 July 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  22. ^ "Aussies unite for a nail biting bronze medal win in the men's relay". Swimming Australia News, 18 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  23. ^ "Two world records for China, four more fall at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympic Committee8 July 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  24. ^ "Seven golds in seven days for Dias at Glasgow 2015". International Paralympoc Committee News, 19 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  25. ^ "Bronte Campbell and Emily Seebohm share Swimmer of the Year Award". Swimming Australia News, 5 September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  26. ^ "Cyclist, Western Sydney athletes dominate NSWIS Awards". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 20 November 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.

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