Claire Keefer

Claire Keefer (born 5 May 1995) is a short stature athlete from Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics where she won a bronze medal.[1] She has won a silver and bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Claire Keefer
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait
Personal information
Full nameClaire Keefer
NationalityAustralian
Born (1995-05-05) 5 May 1995
Medal record
Women's para athletics
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 RioShot put F41
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 DohaShot put F41
Silver medal – second place 2017 LondonShot put F41
Bronze medal – third place 2019 DubaiShot put F41

Personal

She was born on 5 May 1995 with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature.[2] Her parents Lindsay and Sue Keefer live in Withcott, Queensland.[3] She attended St Ursula College in Toowoomba.[4] She lives mostly in Withcott, Queensland. She works part-time as a child care worker.[3]

Career

Keefer competes in the F41 classification and started athletics in 2009.[2] She was ineligible to compete at the 2012 London Paralympics due to being under 18.[2] In the F41 classicification the only athletics events for women are the discus throw and shot put.[3] in 2015, Keefer won the silver medal in discus and bronze medal in shot put at an IPC Grand Prix meet in Dubai.[5]

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a national record throw of 7.62m. She finished fourth in the Women's Discus F41.[6] She has received financial assistance from Aim For the Stars Foundation, the Layne Beachley Foundation.[7] She visits the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane four times per week to undertake technical coaching.[3] Her philosophy is "Strength in size".[2]

She won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in the Women's Shout Put F41 with a throw of 8.16 m.


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At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a throw of 8.44m.[9] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she threw the shot put 9.19 to win the bronze medal Women's Shot Put F41.

Keefer announced her retirement from competition in April 2021.

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References
  1. "Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
  2. "Claire Keefer". International Paralympic Committee Athletics profiles. Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  3. "Paralympic dreams for Claire Keefer". The Morning Bulletin. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  4. Leslie, Cameron (5 February 2010). "Athlete secures gold at titles". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. Slatter, Trent (15 October 2015). "Keefer on the road to Rio Paralympics". The Chronicle. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. "Doha2015". Athletics Australia website. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. "Claire Keefer". Aim for the Stars Foundation website. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. "Athletics results". Rio Paralympics official website. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  9. Ryner, Sascha. "Holt storms home in world record time". Athletics Australia News, 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  10. "World Para Athletics Championships Dubai - Day 8 Recap". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
  11. "Women's shot put F41" (PDF). 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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