Isis Holt
2016 Australian Paralympic Team Portrait
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| Full name | Isis Holt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 July 2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Old Xaverians Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Isis Holt (born 3 July 2001) is a Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She is affected by the condition cerebral palsy. She won two gold medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals and a bronze medal.
Holt was born on 3 July 2001 with cerebral palsy. Which affects both sides of her body.
She goes to school at Brunswick secondary college and is in year 10
Holt took up athletics in 2014. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha in her first major overseas competition, she won gold medals in world record time in two events: Women's 100m T35 (13.63 (w: +2.0) world record) and the Women's 200m T35 (28.57 (w: +1.5 world record). At the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Canberra on 7 February 2016, she smashed her 200m T35 world record by running 28.38 (w: +0.2). At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won silver medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T25 and a bronze medal in the Women's 4 x 100 m Relay T35-38.
Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability.". She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and an Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She competed at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
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