Isis Holt

Isis Holt

Personal information
Full name	Isis Holt
Nationality	Australia
Born	(2001-07-03) 3 July 2001
Sport
Club	Old Xaverians Athletics Club
Medal record Track and field T35 Representing Australia IPC Athletics World Championships 2015 Doha 100m – T35 2015 Doha 200m – T35

Isis Holt (born 3 July 2001) is a cerebral palsy Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She won two gold medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships.

Personal

Holt was born on 3 July 2001. She attends Melbourne Girls Grammar School.

Athletics

Holt took up athletics in 2014. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha in her first major overseas competition, she won gold medals in world record time in two events: Women's 100m T35 (13.63 (w: +2.0) world record) and the Women's 200m T35 (28.57 (w: +1.5 world record). At the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Canberra on 7 February 2016, she smashed her 200m T35 world record by running 28.38 (w: +0.2). At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.

World Records

Distance	Time / Distance	Location	Date
Women's 200m T35	29.49	Brisbane	29 March 2015
Women's 100m T35	13.63 (w: +2.0)	Doha	29 October 2015
Women's 200m T35	28.57 (w: +1.5)	Doha	24 October 2015
Women's 200m T35	28.38 (w: +0.2)	Canberra	7 February 2016).
Women's 100m T35	13.57 (w: -0.8)	Sydney	1 April 2016
Women's 200m T35	28.30 (w: +1.1)	Sydney	3 April 2016

Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability.". She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and an Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Her goal is to compete at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Recognition

• 2015 Victorian Junior Athlete of the Year
• 2015 Athletics Australia Female Para-athlete of the Year

External links

• Australian Paralympic Committee profile
• International Paralympic Committee profile
• Athletics Australia results