Jaryd Clifford

Jaryd Clifford
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born (1999-07-05) 5 July 1999
Sport
Club Diamond Valley Athletic Club
Medal record
Athletics
World Championships
2017 LondonMen's 1500 m T13

Jaryd Clifford (born 5 July 1999)[1] is an Australian Paralympic vision impaired middle distance athlete. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships.[3]

Personal

Clifford was born on 5 July 1999.[1] During primary school his eyesight deteriorated due to juvenile macular degeneration.[4]

Athletics

Clifford is classified as a T12 athlete. In 2014, Clifford came 4th in the 3000m at the Australian All Schools Championships. He competed at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha and came 7th in the T12/13 3000m. In January 2016, his time of 3min 59.6s in the 1500m qualified him for the 2016 Rio Paralympics and he took 10 seconds off the Australian record for T12 athletes. The record had lasted for more than 30 years.[5]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he finished seventh in both the Men's 1500 m T13 and Men's 5000 m T13 events.[6]

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, Clifford won the bronze medal in the Men's 1500 m T13 in a time of 3:53.31. Clifford credited his altitude training and European racing assisting him in winning a medal.[3]

At the Sydney Grand Prix on 18 March 2018, Clifford broke the Men's 1500m T12 world record with a time of 3:45.18. He lowered the previous world record 3:48.31 set by Tunisia’s Abderrahim Zhiou at the 2012 London Paralympics.[7]

In 2018, Clifford is a member of the Diamond Valley Athletic Club and Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[8]

His philosophy is "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced".[8]

Recognition

References

  1. 1 2 "Jarryd Clifford". Athletics Australia Historical Results Database. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 Ryner, Sascha. "Holt storms home in world record time". Athletics Australia News, 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jarryd Cliiford". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Balchin, Max (19 January 2016). "Jaryd Clifford's national record heads the Diamond Valley qualification efforts". Diamond Valley Leader. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Jarryd Clifford". Rio Paralympics Official site. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Aubrey, Jane. "World Records for Clifford, Roeger, as Day posts a 100m PB in Sydney". Athletics Australia website. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  8. 1 2 "Jarryd Clifford". Victorian Institute of Sport website. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  9. ↑ "Winners announced for Victorian Disability Sport and Recreation Awards". Disability Sport & Recreation Victoria. 18 August 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Sport Australia Hall of Fame to 'embrace the future' with scholarship program". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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