Jodi Elkington

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Jodi Elkington

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Elkington
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1993-05-17) 17 May 1993
Wodonga, Victoria
Residence Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Athletics
Event(s) 100 metres
200 metres
Club Wodonga Athletics Club

Jodi Elkington (born 17 May 1993) is an Australian athletics competitor. She competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics. She did not medal at the 2012 Games.

Personal

Elkington was born on 17 May 1993[1] in Wodonga, Victoria.[2][3] She has cerebral palsy and is allergic to cashews.[1][3] She is a netball umpire.[1] Her cousin is runner Jarrem Pearce. He won the 2000 Stawell Gift race, the youngest person to ever win the competition.[1] As of 2012, she lives in Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory[1] and is a student.[1]

Athletics

Elkington is a T37 classified runner competing in 100 metre and 200 metre events.[1][4] She is a member of the Wodonga Athletics Club.[3] As of 2012, she has a scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport[5] and the Australian Institute of Sport,[1] having earned a full-time scholarship from the AIS in 2010 following her Commonwealth Games appearance.[3] She is coached by Iryna Dvoskina.[1]

Elkington started competing in 2008, following a 2007 Australian Paralympic talent search event.[1] She first represented Australia in 2010 at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In the T37 100 metres race, she finished fourth with a time of 15.08.[1][3][6][7] While there, she had health issues related to the food. Jodi went to school at Wodonga south primary school.[1][3] She was Australia's only elite athlete with a disability at the Games.[1] At the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships, she finished second in the 200 metre event.[8] She competed in the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships.[1] She competed in the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships.[4] With a time of 70.42 seconds, she won the 400 metre event.[4] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics.[1][2][9][10][11]

Jodi finished 6th fastest in the Women's T37 400m at the 2012 Paralympic Games with a time of 1:11.49. She also placed 4th with the rest of her team in the Women's 4x100m Relay - T35/T38 class.[12]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 "Jodi Elkington | APC Corporate". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-13. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chris Dutton (2012-06-06). "Canberra's Paralympic athletes aim for Games glory". Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory. Retrieved 2012-07-09. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Mitchell, Chris (2010-10-21). "AIS next stop for Jodi Elkington". The Border Mail. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "World Records Fall at Australian Athletics Championships | IPC". International Paralympic Committee. 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  5. ↑ "Victorian Athletes Selected for London Olympics and Paralympics". VicSport. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  6. ↑ Sydney (2010-04-20). "Australian C'wealth Games athletics team named". The Age. Melbourne. Retrieved 2012-07-16. 
  7. ↑ "Quick wins bronze in rapid pistol pairs -". ABC Goulburn Murray - Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2010-10-08. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  8. ↑ "Patmore closes Nationals with victory". Australian Paralympic Committee. 2011-04-17. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  9. ↑ "Walters sprints for London — Teenager set for Paralympics debut". Canberra Times (Canberra, Australia). 7 June 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012. 
  10. ↑ "The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) announced the athletics team for the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre today, during the team’s final training camp on home soil before the Games begin on 29 August". 2XU. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  11. ↑ "Australian Paralympic Team Announced". Athletics ACT. 2012-06-06. Retrieved 2012-07-24. 
  12. ↑ http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/athletics/event/women-400m-t37/index.html

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