Maddison Elliott
2016 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Elliott
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| Full name | Maddison Gae Elliott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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3 November 1998 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S8, SB8, SM8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | NU Swim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Paul Sharman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Maddison Gae Elliott, OAM (born 3 November 1998) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist by winning bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 100 m freestyle S8 events. She then became the youngest Australian gold medallist when she was a member of the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 points team. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two gold and two silver medals.
Maddison Gae Elliott was born on 3 November 1998 in Newcastle, New South Wales. She has right side cerebral palsy as a result of a neonatal stroke, and was diagnosed with the condition when she was four years old. In addition to swimming, she participated in athletics, and by 2010 held six Australian age group classification records. In 2016, she was living in Gillieston Heights, New South Wales, and a year 12 student at Bishop Tyrrell Anglican College. She has an older sister Dimity Elliott.
Elliott is an S8 classified swimmer who was ranked first in the world in the S8 50 m backstroke in 2012. She is a member of Nuswim Swimming Club, started swimming when she was six months old, and commenced competitive swimming in 2009. She made her national team debut that same year at the Youth Paralympic Games, where she won five gold medals.
By 2010, Elliott held three Australian age group classification records, and the 2010 New South Wales Multi-Class Long Course Swimming Championships, she had five first-place finishes. She represented Australia at the 2011 Oceania Paralympic Championships, and later that year competed in the Canberra hosted Australian Multi-Class Age Swimming Championships. At that event, she won a bronze, five silver and three gold medals. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in swimming.
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