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"You are not born for yourself but for the world."

Athlete Profiles...

MADDISON ELLIOT:

 

This inspirational swimmer was born in Australia on the 3rd of November 1998. At the age of four she was diagnosed with right cerebral palsy caused by a neonatal stroke and as a result this affected her brain and nervous system which stops her from being able learn, think, move, speak and even see properly. Despite all these setbacks she did not let them impede her from achieving her long-term goals.

 

SWIMMING:

 

Being able to swim at only six months of age, Maddison started her swimming career at the age of 11 when She began to swim competitively in 2009. She landed 5 gold medals the same year in the Youth Paralympics. Following that, she was determined to better herself each time and kept swimming. By 2010 she managed to; hold 3 Australian classification records, win 5 gold medals in the New South Wales Multi-Class Long Course Swimming championships and represented Australia in the Oceania Paralympic Championships.

 

Despite all those successes, Maddison believes that her biggest accomplishment of her swimming career was being given the opportunity to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games in London where she managed to become the first ranked S8 50M-backstroke swimmer in the world and bring home 4 medals in total.

by Rebecca Chionni 23/02/2014

"We are not born for ourselves but for the world."

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