Jemima Moore

Jemima Moore
2016 Australian Paralympic Team Portrait
Personal information
Born (1992-03-18) 18 March 1992
Geelong
Medal record
Paralympic athletics
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
2016 Rio Women's 4×400 metre relay - T53/54
2008 Beijing 4 x 100 metres relay - T53-54

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

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

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "emima Moore". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jemima Moore". Rio Paralympics Official site. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Jemima Moore". International Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  5. ↑ http://www.geelongathletics.com/single-post/2017/06/12/London-2017---Para-World-Champs
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