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Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM(born 17 January 1978) is an Australian
"Australian cheetah hunts down rivals"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 7 November 2000
{{DEFAULTSORT:Llorens, Lisa 1978 births Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Australian female high jumpers Australian female long jumpers Australian female sprinters Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic track and field athletes Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic athletes of Australia Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Sportspeople with autism Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Sportswomen from the Australian Capital Territory ACT Academy of Sport alumni Competitors in athletics with intellectual disability Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) 21st-century Australian women 20th-century Australian women
Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM(born 17 January 1978) is an Australian Paralympic athlete
The Paralympic sports comprise all the sports contested in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. As of 2020, the Summer Paralympics included 22 sports and 539 medal events, and the Winter Paralympics include 5 sports and disciplines and about ...
. She was born in Canberra. She specialises in Paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...
high jumping, long jumping, and sprinting, participating in competitions for athletes with autism.
Llorens is known as "The Cheetah" because she has a great affinity with cheetahs. She commented "I feel like I have a connection with the cheetahs, because I'm quite shy, like a cat, and I run so fast." An educational documentary was made about her called ''Lisa Llorens: A Cheetah on the Track''. From 1998 to 2002, she held an athletics scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport for Athletes with a Disability.
Llorens competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million.
It was the first Paralympic Games where Internatio ...
in Atlanta
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, winning gold and bronze medals in track and field events. She received a Medal of the Order of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...
for her 1996 gold medal. She also represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...
in Sydney, and won three gold medals in the 200 metre sprint, the high jump, and the long jump, and a silver medal in the 100 metre sprint. She broke the Paralympic world record three times during her four long jumps.
Llorens also competed at the IPC Athletics World Championships
The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ...
in 1994, winning silver in both the long jump and the 200m; and in 1998, won gold in the 100m, high jump, and long jump . She took part in the Paralympic World Cup in 1998, winning gold in the 100 metre sprint, the high jump and the long jump. In 2004, due to the International Paralympic Committee's decision to Cheating at the Paralympic Games#IPC reaction, remove events for intellectually disabled athletes from its official activities, Llorens retired, as she felt that there was nothing left for her to achieve in sport.
The Australian Paralympic Committee describes her as "Australia’s most outstanding female athlete with an intellectual disability", along with Crystal-Lea Adams.
In 1997, she was awarded the Australian Capital Territory Female Sportstar of the Year, and Young Canberra Citizen of the Year. In November 2015, she was inducted into the ACT Sport Hall of Fame. In 2016, Llorens was induced into the International Sports Federation for Persons with Intellectual Disability (INAS) Hall of Fame.
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"Australian cheetah hunts down rivals"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 7 November 2000
{{DEFAULTSORT:Llorens, Lisa 1978 births Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Australian female high jumpers Australian female long jumpers Australian female sprinters Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic track and field athletes Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic athletes of Australia Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Sportspeople with autism Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Sportswomen from the Australian Capital Territory ACT Academy of Sport alumni Competitors in athletics with intellectual disability Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) 21st-century Australian women 20th-century Australian women