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| Full name | Elizabeth McIntosh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 December 1982 Sandringham, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elizabeth "Lisa" McIntosh, OAM [1] [2] (born 16 December 1982) [3] is an Australian Paralympian athlete with cerebral palsy, who competes mainly in sprint events.
McIntosh was born in the Melbourne suburb of Sandringham on 16 December 1982. [4] She has cerebral palsy which affects her left side. [5] She works as a swimming instructor and lives in the Melbourne suburb of Beaconsfield. [3]
McIntosh first competed for Australia in 1998. [3] At the 2000 Sydney Games, she won three gold medals in the women's 100 m – T38, women's 200 m – T38 and women's 400 m – T38 events, [6] for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia,. [1] She was named the 2000 Junior Female Paralympian of the Year. [3] At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a silver medal in the women's 200 m – T37 event and a bronze medal in the women's 100 m – T37 event, [6] and finished fifth in the women's 400 m – T38 event. [7] despite recovering from a stress fracture in her left foot. [5] At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, she won two gold medals in the women's 100 m – T37 and women's 200 m – T37 events. [6] She holds the world record for 100 m, 200 m and 400 m T37. [3] She was named the 2008 Female Paralympian of the Year. [3]
At the IPC Athletics World Championships, she won gold medals in women's 100 m and 200 m T37 events at both the 2002 Lille [8] and 2006 Assen competitions. [9] At the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100 m – T37 event. [4] She was an Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship holder in 2003. [10] She is taking a break to consider her future in athletics. [3]
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