Claire Keefer Explained

Claire Keefer
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Fullname:Claire Keefer
Nationality:Australian
Birth Date:1995 5, df=yes

Claire Keefer (born 5 May 1995) is a short stature athlete from Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics where she won a bronze medal.[1] She has won a silver and bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Personal

She was born on 5 May 1995 with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature.[2] Her parents Lindsay and Sue Keefer live in Withcott, Queensland.[3] She attended St Ursula College in Toowoomba.[4] She lives mostly in Withcott, Queensland. She works part-time as a child care worker.[3]

Career

Keefer competes in the F41 classification and started athletics in 2009.[2] She was ineligible to compete at the 2012 London Paralympics due to being under 18.[2] In the F41 classicification the only athletics events for women are the discus throw and shot put.[3] in 2015, Keefer won the silver medal in discus and bronze medal in shot put at an IPC Grand Prix meet in Dubai.[5]

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a national record throw of 7.62m. She finished fourth in the Women's Discus F41.[6] She has received financial assistance from Aim For the Stars Foundation, the Layne Beachley Foundation.[7] She visits the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane four times per week to undertake technical coaching.[3] Her philosophy is "Strength in size".[2]

She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in the Women's Shout Put F41 with a throw of 8.16 m.

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At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a throw of 8.44m.[9] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she threw the shot put 9.19 to win the bronze medal Women's Shot Put F41.

Keefer announced her retirement from competition in April 2021.

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced . Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016 . 2 August 2016.
  2. Web site: Claire Keefer . International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles . 26 October 2015 . 13 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191213093105/http://ipc.infostradasports.com/asp/redirect/ipc.asp?page=athletebio&personid=1317679&sportid=513 . dead .
  3. News: Paralympic dreams for Claire Keefer . 27 October 2015 . The Morning Bulletin . 6 October 2015 . 23 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180923102523/https://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/news/paralympic-dreams-for-claire-keefer/2798115/ . dead .
  4. News: Leslie . Cameron . Athlete secures gold at titles . 27 October 2015 . The Chronicle . 5 February 2010.
  5. News: Slatter . Trent . Keefer on the road to Rio Paralympics . 27 October 2015 . The Chronicle . 15 October 2015.
  6. Web site: Doha2015 . Athletics Australia website . 27 October 2015 . 27 October 2015.
  7. Web site: Claire Keefer . Aim for the Stars Foundation website . 27 October 2015 . 3 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151203175725/http://www.aimforthestars.com.au/recipient/claire-keefer . dead .
  8. Web site: Athletics results . Rio Paralympics official website . 10 September 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160922195032/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athletics-schedule-and-results . 22 September 2016.
  9. Web site: Ryner . Sascha . Holt storms home in world record time . Athletics Australia News, 20 July 2017 . 20 July 2017.
  10. Web site: World Para Athletics Championships Dubai - Day 8 Recap . Athletics Australia . 14 November 2019.
  11. Web site: Women's shot put F41. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200823185832/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resATDU19/pdf/ATDU19/AT/ATDU19_AT_C73S_ATWS41100.pdf. 23 August 2020. 23 August 2020. 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.

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