Madison de Rozario, OAM
Sport: Athletics
Madison was first encouraged to begin wheelchair racing by Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame inductee Frank Ponta.
She made her Paralympic debut as the youngest athlete on the 2008 Australian Paralympic Team. She’s the first Australian to win the elite women’s wheelchair race at the London Marathon in 2018, and in 2021, she became the first Australian woman to win the New York Marathon.
With three Paralympic silver medals and ten World Championships medals under her belt, Madison is the reigning women’s 800m T53 world champion and was never more ready to contest gold at her fourth Paralympic campaign.
At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Madison took home medals in three of her four events. She became a Paralympic champion when she won her first gold in the 800m T53, and topped off her Tokyo campaign with a stunning win in the Marathon T54 on the final day of the Games.
Since Tokyo 2020, Madison has gone from strength to strength. In 2022 she was named Athlete of the Year at the Women in Sport awards, and in 2023 won both the London and Sydney marathon.
With a busy year ahead, Madison is completing intensive training to qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
Madison believes it’s important to get proactive with mental health and is currently working on reframing negative thoughts and focusing more on the positive ones.
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