Angie Ballard

Angie Ballard is a world-class Para-athletics competitor.

Since making her Paralympic debut at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games at just 18, Angie has achieved everything the Paralympic world has to offer – except that elusive gold.

Angie was seven when she became a paraplegic in a near-fatal car accident. She spent six weeks in hospital and began rehabilitation in Sydney the following year.

Soon after, Angie discovered wheelchair racing, and quickly set out to establish herself as a force to be reckoned with on future world stages. She won her first individual world title in the women’s 100m T53 at the 2002 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lille, France, and tasted Paralympic success for the first time at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games, where she won a bronze medal in the women’s 100m T53.

At the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Angie scaled the podium with her teammates Christie Dawes, Madison de Rozario and Jemima Moore, who finished in second place in the women’s 4 x 100m relay T53/54. The foursome reunited eight years later at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, where they won a silver medal in the women’s 4 x 400m relay T53/54.

Also in Rio, Angie won a pair of bronze medals in the women’s 100m T53 and women’s 400m T53.

But her most successful Paralympic campaign to date came in 2012. Reaching the podium in three of her four events, Angie returned home from London, England, with two silver medals from the women’s 200m T53 and women’s 400m T53 and a bronze medal from the women’s 100m T53.

As the reigning world champion in the women’s 200m T53 and women’s 400m T53, the expectations were high for Angie heading into the 2017 World Para-athletics Championships in London. She did not disappoint, winning silver in the women’s 100m T53 and women’s 200m T53.

Also in 2017, Angie was appointed to Paralympics Australia’s inaugural Athlete Commission.