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Born 16 February 1997 (age 20) ( 1997-02-16 ) | ||
Rae Anderson (born 16 February 1997) is an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics.
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Anderson was born 16 February 1997 with cerebral palsy, left hemipelgia but it was not diagnosed until she was one. As a child she had three major operations at Westmead Children's Hospital. She attended Terrigal High School on the Central Coast, New South Wales. She is studying Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.
Athletics
In her early teenage years, Anderson learnt to sail and played soccer, basketball and oz tag. A meeting with Evan O'Hanlon led to her taking up athletics in 2010. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she competed in the Women's Long Jump F37/38 and finished 7th with a jump of 3.67m(+0.9). At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, she competed in two throwing events and finished 7th in the Women's Discus F38 and 6th in the Women's Javelin F37. In 2016 she became the first Australian woman with a disability to model for a lingerie company after becoming the face of underwear brand ModiBodi. She competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympics, placing 5th in the F38 Shot put event and 8th in the F37 Discus event.