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Alexandra Lisney
Alexandra Lisney (née Green; born 2 July 1987) is an Australian rower and cyclist. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4 at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She represented Australian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics. Personal Green was born ten weeks premature on 2 July 1987 in Sydney, Australia. She has cerebral palsy that affects the left side of her body. , she lives in Sydney, Australia and was a student at the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. She is employed as a structural engineer. She was married in September 2015. Adaptive rowing Lisney took up adaptive rowing in 2008 following an Australian Paralympic Committee talent search event. She went on to make the national team within one year of participating in the sport with her first appearance at the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poland. Cycling Lisney is a C4 (classification), C4 classified cyclist, and a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C4 (classification)
C4 is a para-cycling classification. It includes people with lower limb impairments or issues with lower limb functionality. Disability groups covered by this classification include people with cerebral palsy, amputations and other lower limb impairments. The responsibility for this classification passed from the IPC to the UCI in September 2006. Definition PBS defined this classification as "Cyclists with upper or lower limb impairments and low-level neurological impairment." ''The Telegraph'' defined this classification in 2011 as "C 1–5: Athletes with cerebral palsy, limb impairments and amputations." The UCI recommends this be coded as MC4 or WC4. Disability groups One of the disability groups in this class is people with cerebral palsy from the CP7 and CP8 classes. CP7 sportspeople are able to walk, but appear to do so while having a limp as one side of their body is more affected than the other. They may have involuntary muscles spasms on one side of their body. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
