Jemima Moore
 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait | |
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| Born | 18 March 1992 Geelong |
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Jemima Moore (born 18 March 1992)[1] is a Paralympian athlete from Australia competing mainly in category T53-54 4 x 100 metres relay events. She represented Australia at the 2008 Beijing and 2016 Rio Paralympics.[2]
Personal
[edit]She was born in Geelong, Victoria.[1] At the age of six, she collapsed due to a rare spinal virus and this affected her lower back and caused her long term incomplete paraplegia.[1]
Athletics
[edit]She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a silver medal in the women's T53-54 4 x 100 metres relay event. She also competed in the individual 100m for T54 athletes but finished third in her heat and failed to progress to the final.[1]
Moore also competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympics where she won a silver medal in the Women's 4 × 400 m T53-54 relay. She finished 11th in the Women's T54 100 m and 400 m and 10th in the Women's 800 m.[3]
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, she finished 10th in the Women's 400m T54, 800m T53 and 1500m T54 events.[4] Moore was one of three Geelong Para Athletes, as well as Martin Jackson and Sam McIntosh, to be selected for the Championships.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Jemima Moore". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ^ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
- ^ "Jemima Moore". Rio Paralympics Official site. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ "Jemima Moore". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Geelongathletics". Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
External links
[edit]- Jemima Moore at the International Paralympic Committee
- Jemima Moore at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Jemima Moore at Paralympics Australia
- Jemima Moore at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- 1992 births
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Geelong
- People with paraplegia
- Living people
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)