Ameera
Lee

Ameera Lee dreams of representing Australia in Para-archery at the Paralympic Games, and she will achieve that dream at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

After finding her start in Para-archery in 2016, it did not take Ameera long to attract the attention of one of the world’s most esteemed Para-archery coaches in Ricci Cheah. Together, they began working towards her selection to the Australian Para-archery team, and in 2018, Ameera made her green and gold debut.

On debut at the 2018 Para-archery European Circuit in Olbia, Italy, Ameera reached the quarter-finals of the women’s individual recurve/compound W1, and simultaneously put the rest of the world on notice for the following year’s 2019 World Archery Para Championships in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, where she looked primed and ready to achieve her first international podium finish.

For Ameera, becoming a Paralympian is about more than representing her country, as special as that is. She dreams of becoming a Paralympian to inspire her 15-year-old son Huthaifa, as well as to prove to others like her with multiple sclerosis that a diagnosis is not a death sentence – the opportunities to take back control of their lives are endless, and one of the ways to do that is through Para-archery.

At the 2023 Para-archery World Championship in the Czech Republic, Ameera’s performances earned a Paralympics quota spot for Paris 2024, in her classification.