Sarah Walsh (born 14 July 1998) is an Australian Paralympic amputee athlete. She represented Australia at the

2016 Rio Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

and

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 ...

in athletics.

Personal

Walsh was born on 14 July 1998 in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

, New South Wales. She was born with fibular hemimelia and this led to her right leg being amputated below the knee when she was 18 months old. She attended

St John Bosco College, Sydney St John Bosco College is an independent systemic Roman Catholic co-educational secondary day school, located in Engadine, a southern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The college was founded in 1978 under the name St John Bosco H ...

Athletics

Walsh was encouraged by a teacher to take up para-athletics at the age of nine. She then joined Helensburgh Little Athletics Club. She received her first prosthetic running blade at the age of 10 as a result of sponsorship from Otto Bock and the Appliance and Limb Centre. She is classified as a T64 athlete. She competed at the

2015 IPC Athletics World Championships The 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships were a Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. The event was the 7th edition of what is now known as the World Para ...

in Doha where she finished sixth in the Women's Long Jump T44 and competed in the heats of the Women's 100m T44. In the

she competed in the T44 Long jump and receiving a result of 4.82 which placed her 6th overall. At the

2017 World Para Athletics Championships The 2017 World Para Athletics Championships were a Paralympic track and field meet organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was held at London Stadium in London from 14 to 23 July 2017. It wa ...

in London, England, she finished fourth in the Women's Long Jump T44 with a jump of 4.85m. At the

2019 World Para Athletics Championships The 2019 World Para Athletics Championships was a Paralympic track and field event organised by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 7 to 15 November 2019 ...

in Dubai, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Long Jump T64 with a leap of 5.20m. At the

, she finished seventh in the Women's Long Jump T64 with a jump of 5:11m. Walsh finished fifth place in the Women's Long Jump T64, leaping to a 4.84m (+0.2) at

2023 World Para Athletics Championships The 2023 World Para Athletics Championships was a Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It was the 10th edition of the event and was held in the Charlety Sta ...

in Paris. She is a member of the Sutherland District Athletics Club and coached by Matt Beckenham.

References

External links

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Sarah Walsh
at Australian Athletics Historical Results
Sarah Walsh Story
at YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Walsh, Sarah Paralympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics 1998 births Living people Amputee category Paralympic competitors Australian amputees Australian female long jumpers Athletes from Sydney Child amputees Sportswomen from New South Wales 21st-century Australian women