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| Born | 31 August 1986 Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||
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| Country |  Australia | ||||||||||
| Sport | Women's Athletics | ||||||||||
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Amy-Lea Mills or Amy Mills (born 31 August 1986) is an Australian Deaflympic track and field athlete who represented Australia in 2005 Summer Deaflympics, 2009 Summer Deaflympics and in 2013 Summer Deaflympics. [1]
Amy Mills was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. She was born profoundly deaf in both ears but which was not diagnosed until 18 months of age.
Amy was encouraged and motivated to participate at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics, which was held in Australia in her home country by her teacher when she was just 18 years old. But in 2004, she met in a terrible car accident which was a major setback with a bad knee laceration and a broken thumb. [2]
Despite the terrible accident, Amy competed at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics and went onto win a gold medal for javelin throw.
She repeated her gold medal hunt in the 2013 Summer Deaflympics for the javelin throw. Amy-Lea Mills also went onto set the new Deaflympic record for women's javelin throw with a distance of 45.98m in the 2013 Summer Deaflympics. [3]
Katherine Dinah "Goldie" Sayers, is a former British javelin thrower, who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom. On 20 May 2007, Sayers set a new British record in the javelin at 65.05 m, thus becoming the first British woman to throw over 65 metres since javelins were redesigned in 1999. Sayers set the record when competing for her university, Loughborough, at the Loughborough International match. She cemented this achievement at the Norwich Union Glasgow Grand Prix on 3 June 2007 where she beat a top-class international field in rainy conditions with a throw of 63.59 m. Defeated rivals included European champion and Olympic silver medallist Steffi Nerius and world champion Barbora Špotáková.
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