Madison de Rozario
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Madison de Rozario (born 24 November 1993)[1] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She has transverse myelitis, a neurological disease which inflames the spinal cord resulting in her using a wheelchair.
At the age of 14, she competed at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and won a silver medal in the Women's 4x100 m T53/54 event as part of the Australian team. She also competed in the individual women's T54 100 m and 400 m events.[2] She was coached by former Paralympic athlete Frank Ponta and is currently coached by Louise Sauvage.[1] [3] She did not medal at the 2012 London Paralympics.[2] In 2012 and 2013, she won the Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race. [4]
At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships, in Lyon, France, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 800 m T53.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Madison de Rozario". Wheelchair Sports WA. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Madison de Rozario's profile on paralympic.org. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "IPC13: Two silver & two bronze won in Lyon". Athletics Australia News. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ↑ "Oz Day 10K HALL OF FAME" (PDF). Wheelchair Sports NSW website. Retrieved 1 March 2015.