| Taylor Gosens | |
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| Nationality: | Australian |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1997 |
| Sport: | Judo |
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Taylor Gosens (born 4 October 1997)[1] is an Australian Paralympic judoka. She has been selected to compete at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.[2]
Gosens is the daughter of Gerard and Heather and has a brother Jordan.[3] Her father competed at three Paralympic Games in athletics and goalball. She has four per cent vision as a result of aniridia, a congenital condition which means she was born with no iris, and glaucoma.[4] Gosen grew up with a passion for music that led her to studying sound engineering at St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School and taking up drumming. She left Brisbane to study a Bachelor of Entertainment Management at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney.[5]
Gosens tried various sports in her childhood. She originally tried Brazilian jui-jitsu and took up judo as a way to managing stress during her studies in Sydney. She has overcome an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction . She competed at the 2023 IBSA World Games in the Women's J2 +70 kg division, her major international competition.[6] [7]
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, Gosen will become the second woman to represent Australia in Paralympic judo.
In 2024, she is coached by Ivica Pavlinic, who represented New Zealand in judo at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.