Ella Pardy
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait
Personal information
Nationality Australia
Born (1990-12-22) 22 December 1990 (age 33)
Roehampton, London, England
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
SportAthletics
Events
  • 100 metres
  • 200 metres
  • Long jump
ClubUniversity of Western Australia Athletics Club
Medal record
Track and field T38
Representing Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio Women's 4×100 m relay - T35-38

Ella Azura Pardy (born 22 December 1990) is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in the T38 100m, 200m and long jump. She represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in long jump[1] and the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics where she won a bronze medal and the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2][3][4]

Personal

Pardy was born in Roehampton, London, England on 22 December 1990.[5] She has autism and cerebral palsy.[6] She trains at the Western Australian Institute of Sport in Perth.[1]

Sporting career

Pardy began participating in sport in attempt to 'wear herself out'.[7] She then became actively involved in ice skating, basketball, swimming, horse riding and athletics.[7] In 2009 and 2011 Pardy represented Australia at the Inas Global Games for para athletes with an intellectual disability.[8] These games were used to determine the athletes classification for the International Paralympic Committee.[8] Pardy was then reclassified and this allowed her compete for qualification to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships and Paralympic Games.[9] She was then added to the National Athlete Support Structure at the international level.[9]

In 2013, she broke her ankle.[1][8] However, after recovering from the injury she competed on the 100m in 13.16 seconds, 0.06 seconds off the world record.[8]

Pardy represented Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in the T37/38 long jump, jumping a distance of 3.62m.[1] In 2015, Pardy has competed in the 200m at the Western Australia Championships running the third fastest time ever for the T37/38 event.[10] At the 2015 IPC Grand Prix held in Brisbane Pardy, won gold in the 100m.[11]

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she finished fifth in both the Women's 100m and 200m T38 events.[1] Pardy was coached by Sebastian Kuzminski[5] and national coach Iryna Dvoskina.[1] Her ambition was to compete at a Paralympic Games.[1]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she finished sixth in the Women's T38 100 m and won a bronze as a member of the Women's 4 × 100 m T35-38.[3]

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, she finished sixth in the Women's 100m T38 and fifth in the Women's 200m T38.[12][13]

At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she finished fifth in the Women's 100m T38 and the Women's 200m T38.[14]

Pardy competed at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, her second Paralympics. She qualified for the final and managed to finish seventh in the Women's 100m T38.[15]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she finished 5th in the women's 100m T38.[16] Pardy finished fifth in the Women's 100m and 200m T38 events at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris[17]

In 2021, she is coached by Danny Kevan.

Recognition

In 2014, Pardy received the Captain's Trophy Award from the University of Western Australia Athletics Club.[1][18]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Ella Pardy Bio". IPC. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Ella Pardy". Rio Paralympics Official site. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  4. ^ "Para-athletics Team Set To 'Do What Australia Does Best' At Tokyo 2020". Paralympics Australia. 23 July 2021. Archived from the original on 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Commonwealth Games Australian Team" (PDF). Commonwealth Games Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  6. ^ Cox, Kearyn (19 January 2017). "WA para-athlete Ella Pardy 'pumped' to run lightning fast alongside Usain Bolt at Nitro Athletics event". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b "WA Youth Awards". WA Youth Awards. Retrieved 10 August 2015.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ a b c d "Ella's road to the Paralympics". Community News. Retrieved 10 August 2015.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ a b "NASS Review". Athletics ACT. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  10. ^ "Ella Pardy kickstarts 2015". Athletics Western Australia. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  11. ^ "2015 Queensland Championships and IPC Grand Prix". Athletics Australia. Archived from the original on 9 July 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  12. ^ Ryner, Sascha. "A silver lining for Australia". Athletics Australia News, 16 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  13. ^ Ryner, Sascha. "A trio of gold medals bolsters Australia's medal tally". Athletics Australia News, 23 July 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Ella Pardy". Athletics Australia Historical Results. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Athletics: PARDY Ella". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 September 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
  16. ^ "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  17. ^ "Turner Burns to Glory as Debutants Deliver | Day Three World Para Athletics Championships". Athletics Australia. 12 July 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
  18. ^ "UWA Athletics Club" (PDF). Retrieved 10 August 2015.

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