Torita Isaac
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Isaac
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| Nationality | Australia |
| Born | 5 July 1995 Moree, New South Wales |
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| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Paralympic athletics |
| Club | University of Queensland |
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Torita Isaac (born 5 July 1995) is an Indigenous Australian athlete. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics and won a bronze medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.[1][2]
Personal
Isaac was born on 5 July 1995 in Moree, New South Wales.[3][4] She is from Jimboomba, Queensland.[5][6] She was born with cerebral palsy, is blind in her right eye and has only 10% minimised vision in her left.[3][6] She has fractured her legs eleven times.[7] She has broken both arms falling off a horse.[7] Isaac is from the Kamilaroi Aboriginal people in the Moree region of New South Wales.[4]
Athletics
Isaac is an athlete,[4][5][7] specialising in sprints.[8] She has been classified as a T13 before being reclassified to T38.[6][7] She is a former member of Jimboomba Athletics Club.[6]
Isaac competed in the 2012 Sydney Track Classic, 2012 Brisbane Track Classic and the 2012 Adelaide Track Classic.[9] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she finished seventh in the 100 m T38, seventh in the 200 m T38 and fourth in the 4 × 100 m Relay T35-38event.[3][6][10]
Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, she finished seventh in both the Women's 100m and 200m T38.[3] At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 400m T38.[2]
She is coached by Wayne Leave in Brisbane.[3]
References
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