Amanda Fraser

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Amanda Fraser
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2000 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fraser
Personal information
Full nameAmanda Fraser
NationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1981-11-10) 10 November 1981 (age 41)
Emerald, Queensland
Height177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Medal record
Representing Australia
Event1st2nd3rd
Paralympic Games 022
IPC Swimming World Championships 011
IPC Athletics World Championships 110
Total143
Swimming
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Sydney Women's 4×100m 34 points
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2000 Sydney Women's 50m Freestyle S7
IPC Swimming World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1998 ChristchurchWomen's 4 x 100m Freestyle Open
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg1998 ChristchurchWomen's 200 m Individual Medley SM7
Athletics
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2004 Athens Women's Discus F37
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2008 Beijing Women's Discus F37-38
IPC Athletics World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Assen Women's Discus F37
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Assen Women's Shot Put F37
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2002 LilleWomen's Discus F37-38

Amanda Fraser (born 10 November 1981 in Emerald, Queensland) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and swimmer. She has cerebral palsy and competes in the F37 category for the physically impaired. Competing in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Summer Paralympics, she won two silver and two bronze medals, and in the 2006 World Championships, she won a gold and a silver medal. In the 2006 championships, she set a world record for discus in her classification, and was named 2006 Telstra Female AWD Athlete of the Year by Athletics Australia. [1] Fraser now works as a personal trainer, working with people unfamiliar to a gym environment, especially women. She believes it is important for women to feel empowered and she aims to help them develop their mental and physical strength. [2]

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Career

Fraser in the pool during the 200 m medley S7 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics 211000 - Swimming 200m medley SM7 Amanda Fraser action 2 - 3b - 2000 Sydney event photo.jpg
Fraser in the pool during the 200 m medley S7 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Fraser, seen second from left with the bronze medal-winning Australian Women's 4 x 100 m freestyle 34pts team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. From left to right: Gemma Dashwood, Amanda Fraser, Melissa Carlton and Priya Cooper 141100 - Swimming 4 x 100m freestyle 34pts Gemma Dashwood Amanda Fraser Melissa Carlton Priya Cooper bronze medals - 3b - 2000 Sydney medal photo.jpg
Fraser, seen second from left with the bronze medal-winning Australian Women's 4 x 100 m freestyle 34pts team at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. From left to right: Gemma Dashwood, Amanda Fraser, Melissa Carlton and Priya Cooper

Fraser was born with spastic hemiplegia, a form of cerebral palsy where one side of the body is affected. [3] At the age of 12, she competed in the Queensland School Sports Athletics Championships and won three gold medals. [4] She later moved on to swimming, and was selected to complete in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, where she won bronze medals in the 4×100 m Freestyle 34-point relay and the S7 50 m Freestyle. [3]

In 2001, she returned to athletics, and qualified for the 2004 Summer Paralympics with a world-record discus throw of 27.95 m at the national championships. At the Paralympics, she competed in the 100 m, shot-put, and discus events, winning a silver medal in the F37 discus classification, Australia's first medal in athletics at the event. [3] [5]

She competed in the 2006 International Paralympic Committee World Championships, where she broke the F37 discus world record with a throw of 29.93 metres, winning the gold medal at the event. Following this achievement, she was named the 2006 Telstra Female Athlete with a Disability of the Year by Athletics Australia. [1]

At the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Fraser was initially awarded the bronze medal for the discus in the combined F37-38 event; however, she was given the silver medal when British athlete Rebecca Chin was disqualified on the basis that she was ineligible to compete in the cerebral palsy category. [6] It was initially reported by ABC News that Fraser refused to shake Chin's hand after the event, [6] however this was later corrected by The Australian when it was found that it was not Fraser who refused to shake hands, but British athlete Beverly Jones. [7] She was an Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship holder from 2002 to 2008. [8]

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References

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