Amy-Lea Mills

Amy-Lea Mills or Amy Mills (born 31 August 1986) is an Australian Deaflympic track and field athlete who represented Australia in 2005 Summer Deaflympics, 2009 Summer Deaflympics and in 2013 Summer Deaflympics.[1]

Amy-Lea Mills
Personal information
Born (1986-08-31) 31 August 1986
Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia
Sport
Country Australia
SportWomen's Athletics
Medal record
Deaflympics
Gold medal – first placeMelbourne 2005javelin throw
Gold medal – first placeSamsun 2013javelin throw

Childhood

Amy Mills was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. She was born profoundly deaf in both ears but which was not diagnosed until 18 months of age.

Career

Amy was encouraged and motivated to participate at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics, which was held in Australia in her home country by her teacher when she was just 18 years old. But in 2004, she met in a terrible car accident which was a major setback with a bad knee laceration and a broken thumb.[2]

Despite the terrible accident, Amy competed at the 2005 Summer Deaflympics and went onto win a gold medal for javelin throw.

She repeated her gold medal hunt in the 2013 Summer Deaflympics for the javelin throw. Amy-Lea Mills also went onto set the new Deaflympic record for women's javelin throw with a distance of 45.98m in the 2013 Summer Deaflympics.[3]

References
  1. "Amy-Lea Mills | Deaflympics". www.deaflympics.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  2. "Amy-Lea Mills - Hear For You". Hear For You. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. "Deaflympics Record - Women". Retrieved 13 November 2018.


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