Lisa Llorens

Lisa Llorens

Lisa Llorens is an Australian athlete. She specialises in Paralympic high jumping, long jumping and sprinting, in competitions for athletes with autism.

Llorens represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and won gold in the 200 metre sprint, the high jump and the long jump. She won silver in the 100 metre sprint. [ [http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/athletics/achievements "Athletics - Achievements"] , Australian Institute of Sport] She broke the world record three times during her four long jumps. [ [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/paralympics/news/2000/10/26/daag/ "Athlete of the hour"] , CNN, October 27, 2000] She had previously competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Athens, winning a gold and a bronze in track and field events. [ [http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1996/week08/2084.htm Legislative Assembly for the ACT] , Hansard, June 25, 1996] [ [http://www.hansard.act.gov.au/hansard/1996/week10/3064.htm Legislative Assembly for the ACT] , Hansard, September 4, 1996]

Llorens also competed at the Paralympic World Athletics Championships in 1994, winning silver in both the long jump and the 200 metre sprint. [ [http://www.dsa.org.au/life_site/text/sport/index.html "Sport"] , Disability Services Australia Ltd] She took part in the Paralympic World Cup in 1998, where she won gold in the 100 metre sprint, the high jump and the long jump. [ [http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/athletics/achievements "Athletics - Achievements"] , Australian Institute of Sport]

The Australian Paralympic Committee describes her as "Australia’s most outstanding female athlete with an intellectual disability", along with Crystal-Lea Adams. [ [http://svc033.wic007tv.server-web.com/apc_news_detail.asp?id=129 "2005 INAS-FID World Athletics Championships, Day 1, 26/Sept/2005"] , Australian Paralympic Committee, September 28, 2005]

External link

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2000/10/24/sophil24.xml "Australian cheetah hunts down rivals"] , "The Telegraph", November 7, 2000

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