Ellie Victoria Cole, OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted.
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Sport:
Her 100m backstroke title also came with a world record. A further bronze medal in the 50m freestyle S9 and a silver in the 4 x 100m medley relay 34 points sealed an incredible competition for the Melbourne-born athlete.
For her efforts, Cole received Swimming Australia’s Golden Moment Award in 2015.
At Rio 2016, Cole successfully defended her 100m backstroke title and was part of the relay team that defended their 4x100m freestyle relay 34 points crown. In all, she won medals in six of her events, sharing the honour as Australia’s top medallist in Rio.
Story:
Ellie Cole is a bona fide Australian sporting champion. Yet as other women athletes, or sportspeople of colour or other minorities can attest, success is no shield sometimes.
The star swimmer believes the comment was made in jest. But she was disappointed. “And I think that’s when I really started asking myself questions about what’s happening outside of the sporting space,” she says. “Because as a prolific athlete, I do live in a bit of a bubble. What’s actually happening out there in the real world needs to be spoken about more.”
The lofty goal of the 10-year campaign, which will be a key feature of the Paralympics opening ceremony on 24 August, is to “act as a global movement publicly campaigning for disability visibility, accessibility and inclusion”. Organisers say the opening ceremony will embrace the inclusion agenda in an unashamed way that past games have not.
Biography:
Ellie Victoria Cole, OAM (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted.
She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships. At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won four gold and two bronze medals.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Ellie Victoria Cole |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 12 December 1991 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Backstroke, butterfly, freestyle |
| Classifications | S9, SM9, SB8 |
| Club | Knox Pymble[1] |
| Coach | Nick Dobson[2] |
Cole faced a challenging time in the lead-up to Rio Paralympics. She reflects “I was still questioning if I was worthy to be there heading in – and I knew that I was, but it’s amazing that even after the amount of psychological sports training that I’ve had, those thoughts still come in and take you down… Usually the athletes who win are the ones who can put those thoughts aside, and tell themselves that they’ve got a good crack at winning. Meanwhile, Cole put those thoughts aside and went on to win 6 medals at Rio.
Twin:
Female athletes are intriguing, inspiring, multidimensional women– it’s not all training, competing and bulk-buy protein powder. We guarantee they are at least as fascinating as those other fitspo chicks you follow on Insta. So, in the lead-up to the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games (April 4–15, 2018), we take a peek inside their lives and minds. First up, meet Paralympic swimmer Ellie Cole
Ellie Cole only has one real leg. Cancer meant the other one was amputated when she was three. But not only did she survive, she thrived and doesn’t think she’d be an athlete if she had two legs.
“Sport doesn’t really run in my family; it was just a way to normalise my disability growing up. I think that’s where I got it from,” says the 25-year-old, who first competed in a Paralympics in Beijing, in 2008. “One of my favourite things to do is beat people with two legs. So I did that a lot as a kid and I think that’s what made me such a successful athlete now.”
Age:
She was born on 12 Dec, 1991. She is now 29 years old.
With an OAM & 15 Paralympic medals under her belt including the 2 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze she took home at the 2016 Rio Paralympic games, Ellie Cole has become one of Australia’s most accomplished Paralympians.
At age three, Ellie’s right leg was amputated after she suffered a life-threatening sarcoma cancer. Rather than dwell on adversity, Ellie has instead shown an incredible ability to overcome the odds.
Quotes:
“It’s not that my parents weren’t cautious – I had a limb missing, after all – but they never really put limitations on me,” she says.
“I learnt from a really young age that even though I might have a setback, it’s not an excuse and that I still need to put in just as much effort as everyone else, if not more.”
“Don’t get me started on this. For some reason, big sponsors think that people don’t want to watch women in sport. Um, seriously? How can women still be considered a ‘minority’?”
“I was training this morning and Beyoncé’s Who Run the World started playing, and all the girls in the pool started singing it at the top of the lungs. “Who run the world? Girls!” I love seeing stuff like that. Women need to lift each other up.”
“People say to me, you could die happy now, you’re a gold medallist! And I’m like, ‘Nah, are you serious? I’ve got so much more to do!”
Height:
Here waht we get from her profile.
Birth Date: 12 Dec 1991
Place of Birth: LILYDALE
Country of birth: AUS
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Sport Class
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S9
Raised in Victoria, Cole has amassed an amazing list of achievements since she started competitively swimming in 2003. Fast forward nearly 15 years and the triple Paralympian has 15 Paralympic medals to her name, including six gold, four silver and five bronze.
