Anjali Forber Pratt

Anjali Forber-Pratt

Anjali Forber-Pratt at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.
Personal information
Nationality	United States
Born	(1984-06-22) June 22, 1984 (age 32) Kolkata, India
Residence	Natick, Massachusetts, USA
Sport
Disability class	T53
Coached by	Adam Bleakney
Medal record Track and field (athletics) Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing Women's 400 m T53 2008 Beijing Women's 4x100 m T53/54 IPC Athletics World Championships 2011 Christchurch 200m T53 2011 Christchurch 100m T53 2011 Christchurch 400m T53 2011 Christchurch 4x400m relay T53-54

Anjali Forber-Pratt (born June 22, 1984) is an American wheelchair racer who competes in sprint events at the Paralympic level.

Born in Kolkata, India and abandoned by her mother, Forber-Pratt was adopted by Lawrence Pratt and Rosalind Forber when she was two and a half months old. Raised in Natick, Massachusetts, Forber-Pratt was diagnosed with transverse myelitis when she was four-and-a-half months old; the disorder left her paralyzed from the waist, down. Forber-Pratt began racing at the national level in 1993 with an appearance at the Junior National Wheelchair Games, and went on to compete at the games three more times—in 1996, 1998, and 2003—winning a total of four gold, six silver, and two bronze medals. She is currently the World Record and American Record holder in the 200-meter. As a student at Natick High School, Forber-Pratt also competed in downhill skiing before graduating in 2002.

Forber-Pratt is a three-time graduate from the University of Illinois and is an alumni member of the school's wheelchair track and field team. She has received a bachelor's and master's degree in Speech Language Pathology from Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Human Resource Education in May 2012.

Her first major international competition was the 2007 Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, where she won two gold medals in the 100-meter and 200-meter races and a bronze in the 400-meter. At the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, she won a bronze medal in the 400-meter T53 event with a personal best time of 56.79 seconds and another bronze in the 4×100-meter relay T53–T54. She also competed in the 100-meter and 200-meter in Beijing, finishing sixth and fourth, respectively. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London on Team USA in the 100m, 200m and 400m T53 events.