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Born | Dublin, Ireland | 14 September 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Stargardt's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres 200 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Raheny Shamrock Athletic Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Orla Comerford (born 14 September 1997) is an Irish Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events at the international level. [1] [2] [3] She has Stargardt's disease, which is an inherited retinal disease. Its main symptom is loss of visual acuity, uncorrectable with glasses. [4] [5]
Comerford won a bronze medal in the 100 metres sprint in the T13 classification at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. [6]
At the age of 19, Comerford competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, running in the T13 100m. She finished 8th, qualifying for the final.[ citation needed ]
At the 2018 European Para Championships in Berlin, she won two bronze medals, in the 200m and 100m events.[ citation needed ]
Comerford finished 13th at the delayed 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo.[ citation needed ]
Comerford finished 4th at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.[ citation needed ]
Comerford won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris (the race was won in a World Record time by Lamiya Valiyeva of Azerbaijan) [7]
She won the 60m Mixed Classification race at the 2025 European Indoor Athletics Championships in Apeldoorn.[ citation needed ]
She set a new 200m personal best of 24.61 at the 2025 Para athletics Paris Grand Prix, a week later she won the at the Bislett Games in Oslo at the Oslo Diamond League posting a new personal best of 11.87.[ citation needed ]
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