Discipline
Para Athletics
- 400m T53
- 800m T53
Paralympic Games Attended
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Paris 2024
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Tokyo 2020
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Rio 2016
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1
2
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London 2012
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2
1
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Beijing 2008
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1
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Athens 2004
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1
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Sydney 2000
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Sporting Career Highlight
Winning a bronze medal in the women’s 100m T53 at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games
You can stumble over a rock but still climb the mountain
Angie Ballard is a world-class track and field competitor with vast international experience spanning a remarkable seven Paralympic Games. For Paris 2024, she shared the captaincy of the Australian Paralympic Team with Para canoe star Curtis McGrath, helping to lead the team to a world top 10 finish.
Angie counts London 2012 as her best Paralympic Games. She won a pair of silver medals there in the women’s 200 metres T53 and women’s 400 metres T53, and bronze in the women’s 100 metres T53. She has won five gold medals at the World Championships, spanning two relay golds at Birmingham 1998 all the way to 200 metres and 400 metres T53 crowns at Doha 2015.
Angie found her competitive edge in wheelchair racing in 1994, five years after she was injured in a near fatal car accident as a seven-year-old. Her parents were eager for Angie and her brother, who has spina bifida, to get involved in Para sport and it did not take long for those around Angie to realise they were witnessing the rise of a future champion.
Angie made her Paralympic debut in front of a home crowd at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. At Athens 2004, as the reigning world champion in the women’s 100 metres T53, she won her first Paralympic medal, a bronze in the same event.
A silver medal in the women’s 4×100 metres T53/54 at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games preceded Angie’s most successful Paralympic campaign, London 2012, before she won two more bronze medals at Rio 2016, in the 100 metres and 400 metres, and silver in the 4×400 metres relay T53/54.
At Angie’s sixth Paralympics, the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, she made it to the finals in her three events – the women’s T53 100, 400 and 800 metres – and, at Paris 2024, she finished sixth in the women’s 400 and 800 metres T53 events.
Adding to her impressive high performance career, Angie is a three-time Commonwealth Games medallist, including gold in the 1500 metres T54 at Glasgow 2014.
Angie was educated in the ACT and completed a degree in Psychology (Hons) at Sydney University. She enjoys reading books and watching movies. Her favourite quote is: You can stumble over a rock but still climb the mountain.
