26 Facts About Angie Ballard

Angela Ballard was born on 6 June 1982 and is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in T53 wheelchair sprint events.

Angie Ballard became a paraplegic at age 7 due to a car accident.

Angie Ballard began competing in wheelchair racing in 1994, and first represented Australia in 1998.

Angie Ballard has been coached by Louise Sauvage and trained with Madison de Rozario.

Angie Ballard held athletics scholarships at the Australian Institute of Sport from 1999 to 2001, and The University of Sydney, and represents the ACT Academy of Sport.

Angie Ballard has been appointed by a number of organisations as a disability or sports ambassador, and currently sits on the board of Wheelchair Sports NSW.

Angie Ballard attended Lyneham Primary School and Lyneham High School in Canberra.

At age 14, after treatment for scoliosis, Angie Ballard was unable to participate in sport for a year.

Angie Ballard 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.

Angie Ballard graduated and received an Alumni Award in 2014.

Angie Ballard is a wheelchair racing athlete, competing mainly in category T53 sprint events.

Angie Ballard first entered competitive wheelchair races in 1994, at the age of twelve.

In preparation for the 2004 Athens Paralympics, Angie Ballard trained six days a week in 11 sessions.

Angie Ballard's training included going to Centennial Park and training on the hills there.

Angie Ballard took the year off her psychology degree to train six times a week.

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Angie Ballard won gold medals in the Women's 200m T53 in a championship record time of 29.33 and the Women's 400m T53.

Angie Ballard won the gold medal in the Women's 1500m T54 at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Angie Ballard repeated her 2018 result, by winning the silver medal in Women's 1500m T54 at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, again behind de Rozario.

Angie Ballard won five gold medals at those games and was named the event's Female Athlete of the Games.

Angie Ballard won a gold and silver at the 2011 Sydney Track Classic.

Angie Ballard sometimes competes in longer distance events, in which the disability classifications are usually combined, so she competes against athletes in the higher T54 classification.

Angie Ballard has been appointed as an ambassador or advocate by a number of organisations with an interest in people with disabilities, sport, health, or exercise.

Angie Ballard helped recruit volunteers, attended fundraisers, posed for photos and showed them her medal.

In 2007 Angie Ballard was chosen as an ambassador for Walk to Work Day.

Angie Ballard is on the board of the Wheelchair Sports Association of New South Wales.

Alongside a number of other university-affiliated athletes, Angie Ballard attended a press conference to oppose the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism.