Alissa Jordaan

Alissa Jordaan (30 June 2003)[1] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She represented Ausralia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[2]

Alissa Jordaan
Alissa Jordaan in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2003-06-30) 30 June 2003
Sport
Country Australia
SportParalympic athletics

Athletics

She is classified as a T47 athlete.[3] She was a member of Northern Suburbs Little Athletics Club in Sydney.

At the 2017 World Junior Para-Athletics World Championships in Nottwil, Switzerland, she won the gold medal in Long Jump U18 T42-47, and silver medals in the 100m and 200m (U18 T42-47).[1]

In November 2020, Jordaan became the first Australian female T46/47 sprinter to run the 400m in under 60 seconds, clocking a time of 59.69" at the Australian Institute of Sport.

In 2019, she was one of five Australian Para-athletes from New South Wales to be the first recipients of the Kurt Fearnley Scholarship.[4]

She then competed in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where she came 7th in the 400m T47 and 10th ranked in the 100m T47 .[5]

In 2021, she is coached in Canberra by Sebastian Kuzminski.[3]

References
  1. "Alissa Jordaan". Athletics Australia Historical Results. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  2. "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.
  3. "Alissa Jordaan". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  4. "2019 Kurt Fearnley Scholarships recap". Commonwealth Games Australia. Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. "Athletics JORDAAN Alissa - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics". olympics.com. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
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