Rhiannon Clarke
 Rhiannon Clarke in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 23 July 2002 Joondalup, Western Australia |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Para-athletics |
Medal record | |
Rhiannon Clarke (born 23 July 2002) is an Australian para-athletics competitor who specialises in sprint events. She won two bronze medals at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. She represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
Personal[edit]
Clarke was born with cerebral palsy in Joonndalup, Western Australia, on 23 July 2002.[1] As of 2018, she attended Mater Dei College in Joondalup.[2] The Australian Olympic Committee awarded Clarke the prestigious Pierre de Coubertin Award in 2018.[3]
Athletics[edit]
Clarke started running after a para-come-try day in 2014.[1] She concentrated on sprint events in 2017.[2] As a fifteen-year-old at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal in the women's 100m T38.[2] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she won bronze medals in the women's 100m and 200m T38.[4][5]
At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics held in 2021.[6] Clarke was a finalist in the Women's 100m T38 where she came 5th. She then came 7th in the Women's 400m T38 with a time of 1:02.65 which was an Australian record.[7]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's 100m T38.[8]
Clarke at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris won the silver medal in the Women's 400m T38 and finished fourth in the 100m T38 and 200m T38.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Rhiannon Clarke". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ a b c Lacey, Bridget (12 April 2018). "Commonwealth Games 2018: WA teen Rhiannon Clarke comes from clouds to win silver medal on the Gold Coast". The West. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "21 September 2018". www.mdc.wa.edu.au. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "World Para Athletics Championships Dubai - Day 6 Recap". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "World Para Athletics Championships Dubai - Day 7 Recap". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ^ "Para-athletics Stars Perris and Turner Secure Their Paralympic Passage to Tokyo". Paralympics Australia. 17 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ "Athletics: CLARKE Rhiannon". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Paris World Para Athletics Championships Pave Way for Future Success". Athletics Australia. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
External links[edit]
- 2002 births
- Living people
- Australian female sprinters
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century Australian women
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
- Sportswomen from Western Australia