Carlee Beattie

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Carlee Beattie
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2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Beattie
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (1982-09-09) 9 September 1982 (age 41)
Sport
CountryAustralia
Sport Paralympic athletics
DisabilityCongenital arm amputee
Disability class T46, F46 T47
Achievements and titles
Personal bestLong jump: 6.01m WR
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Women's Athletics
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2012 London Long Jump - F46
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio Long Jump - T45/46/47F46
IPC Athletics World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Doha Women's Long Jump T47
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Christchurch Long Jump - F44/46
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Lyon Women's Long Jump F46
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Christchurch 100m - T46

Carlee Beattie (born 9 September 1982) is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. A congenital arm amputee, she won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in the Women's Long Jump. [1] She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. [2]

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Personal

Beattie was born on 9 September 1982, [3] and is from Warwick, Queensland, [4] [5] in the Brisbane area. [6] She attended Warwick West,St Mary's, Assumption College and Warwick High School. [7] As of 2012, she is studying to be a Nutritionist at the Endeavour College of Natural Health. [3] [8]

Her left arm is not fully formed, a condition she was born with, [6] [9] and is classified as an arm amputee. [10] She has played other sports including field hockey and netball. [7] She competed in the 2000 Netball State Titles, where she was named the competition's most valuable player. [3] [7]

In 2012, she was named one of Zoo Weekly 's sexiest Paralympians. [11]

Athletics

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Beattie at the 2012 London Paralympics
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Beattie at the 2012 London Paralympics
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Beattie at the 2012 London Paralympics

Beattie is an F46 classified long jumper, [3] 100 metre and 200 metre runner. [10] She had participated in the javelin event but an early injury deterred her from making it a regular part of her competition schedule. [7] As of 2011, she is coached by Brett Jones. [6] She took up athletics at the encouragement of a teacher [9] in 2007. [3] She has held a world record of 5.89 metres in her classification in the long jump, a record she set in April 2011. She broke her March 2011 world record set at the March 2011 Sydney Grand Prix. [3] [6] [10] In February 2013, she again broke her own long jump world record with a leap of 5.93 metres. [12] She bettered this mark at her next meet, the 2013 Sydney Track Classic at Sydney Olympic Park in early March, eclipsing the 6 metre mark to set a new world record of 6.01 metres. [13]

Beattie first represented Australia in 2008. [3] She represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the long jump, 100 metre and 200 metre event, making the finals in none of her events. [3] [4] [6] [10] She competed in the 2010 Australian national titles, where she won the long jump event with a distance of 5.71 metres. [7] She competed in the Australian national titles in April 2011, competing in both her classification and the able bodied athlete event. In the able bodied event, she finished eighth. [3] She competed in the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand finishing second in the long jump and third in the 100 metre event. [6] [10] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics. [3] [5] [14] [15] [16] In November 2011, she was debating using a prosthetic arm while competing at the London Paralympics. [6] The limb would have cost A$5,000. [6] She won the silver medal in the Women's Long Jump - F46 at the 2012 Games. [1] She made the finals of the T46 100 meters, but was unable to run the final due to an adductor tear in her groin. [17]

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, she won a silver medal in the Women's Long Jump F46. [18]

Beattie won her first gold medal in a major international competition by winning the Women's Long Jump T47 at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha with a jump of 5.75m. Beattie commented on winning gold "I’ve always been the bridesmaid and to have this before Rio is such a massive confidence boost. It will give me the drive to keep going, to want it even more and to make sure that I can do the same thing again at the Paralympic Games.” [19]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Long Jump T45/46/47 with a jump of 5.57m, which as 5 cm behind the winner Anna Grimaldi. [20]

She is coached by Gary Bourne. [18]

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