Alissa Jordaan (born 30 June 2003)
is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She represented Australia at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...
.
Athletics
She is classified as a
T47 T47 may refer to:
* T47 (classification), a disability sport classification
* Cessna T-47, an American trainer aircraft
* Slingsby T.47, a British glider
* T-47 airspeeder, a fictional vehicle in the ''Star Wars'' franchise
* T 47-class destroye ...
athlete.
She was a member of Northern Suburbs Little Athletics Club in Sydney.
At the 2017 World Junior Para-Athletics World Championships in Nottwil, Switzerland, she won the gold medal in Long Jump U18 T42-47, and silver medals in the 100m and 200m (U18 T42-47).
In November 2020, Jordaan became the first Australian female T46/47 sprinter to run the 400m in under 60 seconds, clocking a time of 59.69" at the Australian Institute of Sport.
In 2019, she was one of five Australian Para-athletes from New South Wales to be the first recipients of the
Kurt Fearnley Scholarship.
Jordaan competed in the
2020 Tokyo Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic ...
. She qualified for the final of the
400m T47 where she came 7th. She came 10th in her
100m T47 heat and did not advance to the final.
In 2021, she is coached in Canberra by Sebastian Kuzminski.
References
External links
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Athletics Australia Historical Results
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Living people
2003 births
Paralympic athletes for Australia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Australian female sprinters
21st-century Australian women
Place of birth missing (living people)