Angie Ballard

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Full Name	Angie Ballard
Date Of Birth	Jun 6, 1982(1982-06-06)
Age	42
Birthplace	Canberra
Country	Australia
Birth City	Australian Capital Territory
Horoscope	Gemini

Angie Ballard Biography

Angie Ballard is one of the most popular and richest Athletics Competitor who was born on June 6, 1982 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Ballard is born June 6, 1982, in Canberra. When she was seven, she was diagnosed as an (T10) paraplegic due to an accident in the car, where the driver of her car lost control her vehicle due to fatigue. After the accident, her first hospitalization and rehabilitation was at Canberra over three months in a group of elderly amputees. Rehabilitation was then transferred into at the Royal North Shore Hospital, in which she got to know Christie Dawes (nee Skelton) who she would later compete with on the Australian 4×100 relay team in Beijing in 2008. Beijing Paralympics. Since her brother was diagnosed with spina bifida and was “in the [regular] system” her parents wanted Angie continue to attend the regular school, instead of one that was specifically designed for students with disabilities. She was a student at Lyneham Primary School, and Lyneham High School in Canberra. Her teacher of physical education was one of the teachers who advised her to take part in wheelchair sports. Following her recovery, she attempted playing wheelchair basketball and swimming. The first time she raced at the age of 12 ended in sore necks and blisters However, the sport of wheelchair athletics quickly became her favorite. When she was 14, following treatment for scoliosis Ballard was not able to participate in any sport for a full year.

Ballard was the winner of the 100m female wheelchair title for open in 1998 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005 and was second in 2003, 2000 and 2011. In the 200 m race she was awarded gold in 1998 1999 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2010 as well as 2008 as well as silver in 2005 and 2000, and bronze in 2006. In the 400m, she was awarded gold in 1999 2000 2001, 2005, in 2008 and 2010 as well as silver in 2004, and bronze in 2002 and 2006. For the 800m race, she was awarded gold in 2001 and 1999 bronze in 2001 and in 2005, and bronze in 2002 , 2004. In the 1500 meters, she took home gold in both 2005 and 2010.

In 1999, she competed at Australia’s Junior Wheelchair Nationals. She won five gold medals at those games and was named the event’s Female Athlete of the Games.

She was offered a scholarship with the ACT Academy of Sport and she then took up an athletics scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra from 1999 to 2001. In 2002, she moved to Sydney to attend university on a sports scholarship, initially studying commerce. As of 2011, she was living in Liberty Grove, New South Wales and attending the University of Sydney studying for a Bachelor of Psychology, with the intention of practising as a psychologist. She graduated and received an Alumni Award in 2014.

She started participating with wheelchairs back in 1994 and was first representing Australia when she was in the year 1998. Over the course of four Paralympic Games from 2000 to 2012, she’s won 3 silver, 2 bronze awards. Her coach at present is Louise Sauvage and her training partner is Madison de Rozario.

Angie Ballard Net Worth

Angie Ballard is one of the richest Athletics Competitor from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Angie Ballard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Angela Ballard (born 6 June 1982) is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in wheelchair sprints T53. She was diagnosed with paraplegia at the age of seven due to an accident in the car.

Ballard first started competing in race in a wheelchair in the year 1994 aged twelve. Her first racing wheelchair was purchased from an auction. In 1997, she was to take the sport more seriously and started breaking new records for Australian athletics for her category. The following year she represented her country on an international stage. In 2000, she had world records for the T53 100 and 200 m events.

In August 1998, Ballard competed at the International Paralympic Committee World Championships in Birmingham, England, where she was part of the gold medal winning Australian women’s 4 x100 m and 4×400 m relay teams. Both relay wins set long-standing world records. In the 2002 World Championships, she won gold in the 100 m. At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, she won silver medals in the Women’s 100 m, Women’s 200 m and Women’s 800 m T53 and a bronze medal in the 400 m T53.

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Just before the Games, she competed in a warm up event in Switzerland, and set Australian records in the 100 m, 400 m and 800 m events. At the 2004 games, she won a bronze medal in the T53 100 m, behind Tanni Grey-Thompson and Francesca Porcellato. Her goal for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics was to set a personal best, but she also had eyes on a medal. She took the year off her psychology degree to train six times a week. At the 2008 games, along with her teammates Christie Dawes, Madison de Rozario, and Jemima Moore, she achieved her best Paralympic result, winning a silver medal behind China’s world record in the T53/54 4×100 m relay. In the individual events, she finished fifth in the women’s T53 100 m event (a race won in world record time by Huang Lisha), seventh in the women’s T53 200 m event (also won in a world record time by Huang), seventh in the women’s T53 400 m event, and led out the women’s 800 m final, eventually finishing sixth. After a couple of sub-par competition results in 2011, Ballard made big changes to her diet, gloves, technique, chair position, and training regime. She entered the 2012 London Paralympics ranked world number one in both the T53 100 m and 200 m. At the games, Ballard participated in the T53 class events for 100 m, 200 m, 400 m and 800 m events. She won two silver medals in the 200 m and 400 m T53 events, and a bronze medal in the 100 m T53 event.

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Angie Ranked on the list of most popular Athletics Competitor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Angie Ballard celebrates birthday on June 6 of every year.

Ballard also sometimes competes in longer distance events, in which the disability classifications are usually combined, so she competes against athletes in the higher T54 classification. She represented Australia in the 800 m (T54) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, placing 6th in the final. At the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, she won a gold medal in the 1500 m T54. She has also raced in and helped organise the 10 km Oz Day wheelchair race, placing 2nd in 1999, 3rd in 2005, and 3rd in 2012. In 1998, together with Louise Sauvage, Christie Skelton, and Holly Ladmore, she completed an 845-kilometre (525 mi) relay from Byron Bay to Bondi Beach, which raised $200,000 for disabled athletes.

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