1. Carlee Beattie was born on 9 September 1982 and is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor.
19 Facts About Carlee Beattie
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Carlee Beattie attended Warwick West, St Mary's, Assumption College and Warwick High School.
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Carlee Beattie's left arm is not fully formed, a condition she was born with, and is classified as an arm amputee.
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Carlee Beattie has played other sports including field hockey and netball.
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Carlee Beattie competed in the 2000 Netball State Titles, where she was named the competition's most valuable player.
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Carlee Beattie is an F46 classified long jumper, 100 metre and 200 metre runner.
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Carlee Beattie had participated in the javelin event but an early injury deterred her from making it a regular part of her competition schedule.
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Carlee Beattie took up athletics at the encouragement of a teacher in 2007.
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Carlee Beattie has held a world record of 5.89 metres in her classification in the long jump, a record she set in April 2011.
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Carlee Beattie broke her March 2011 world record set at the March 2011 Sydney Grand Prix.
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Carlee Beattie bettered this mark at her next meet, the 2013 Sydney Track Classic at Sydney Olympic Park in early March, eclipsing the 6 metre mark to set a new world record of 6.01 metres.
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Carlee Beattie represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the long jump, 100 metre and 200 metre event, making the finals in none of her events.
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Carlee Beattie competed in the 2010 Australian national titles, where she won the long jump event with a distance of 5.71 metres.
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Carlee Beattie competed in the Australian national titles in April 2011, competing in both her classification and the able bodied athlete event.
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Carlee Beattie competed in the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand finishing second in the long jump and third in the 100 metre event.
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Carlee Beattie was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics.
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Carlee Beattie won the silver medal in the Women's Long Jump - F46 at the 2012 Games.
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Carlee Beattie made the finals of the T46 100 meters, but was unable to run the final due to an adductor tear in her groin.
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Carlee Beattie won her first gold medal in a major international competition by winning the Women's Long Jump T47 at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha with a jump of 5.75m.