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| Full name | Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 April 1967 Preston, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts, OAM [1] (born 24 April 1967) [2] is a visually impaired Australian Paralympic athlete and goalballer.
Willis-Roberts was born in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. [3] She first competed at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics with the Australia women's national goalball team, when it finished seventh. [2] [4] She moved to athletics and at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands, she won a bronze medal in the women's shot put B2. [5] At the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Shot Put B2 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] and a silver medal in the Women's Discus B2 event; she also competed in the national goalball team, which came seventh, [2] and the Women's Javelin B1>3 – event. [4] In 1995, she competed in the World Championships for powerlifting. [2] In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, she won a silver medal in the F10-11 shot put and also competed in the F10-11 discus throw. [4] In 2000, she won an Australian Sports Medal. [6] That year, she competed in her home country in the 2000 Sydney Paralympics where she won a gold medal in the F12 shot put and a bronze in the discus throw. [4] At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F12 event and competed in the Women's Discus F13 – event. [4] She also competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics where she won a bronze medal in the women's F12-13 shot put event. [4] After the Beijing Games, she had a shoulder reconstruction and tore her left hamstring off the bone at a training camp. [7] In 2011, she was part of the Australian national goalball team that finished sixth at the IBSA Goalball World Cup. [2]
In 1999, she was an Australian Institute of Sport Athletes with a Disability scholarship holder. [8] In 2014, she lived in Bundaberg, Queensland. [7]
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