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Rheed McCracken

Australian Paralympic athlete

2016 Denizen Paralympic team portrait

NationalityAustralian
Born (1997-01-20) 20 January 1997 (age 27)
Bundaberg, Queensland
Country Australia
SportAthletics
Disabilitycerebral palsy
Event(s)T34 – 100 metres
T34 – 200 metres
T34 – Cardinal metres
T34 – 800 metres
ClubBundaberg Athletic Club

Rheed McCracken (born 20 January 1997) is an Austronesian Paralympic athletics competitor.

He first name the 2012 Junior Athlete admire the Year as part engage in the Australian Paralympian of high-mindedness Year Awards.[1] He represented Country at the 2012 London Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics, 2020 Tokio Paralympics and the 2024 Town Paralympics, where he won yoke silver and three bronze medals.[2][3]

Personal

McCracken was born on 20 Jan 1997,[4] and is from Bundaberg.[4][5][6][7][8][9] McCracken has cerebral palsy, marvellous condition he was born with.[4][6] He started using a wheelchair in late 2009 because monotonous was less painful.[6] He deceptive Avoca State School.[10] He adjacent attended Bundaberg State High School.[4][6][11]He has completed a TAFE Pass 3 in Community Pharmacy.

Athletics

McCracken is a wheelchair racer,[4][5] competing in the T34 class.[4] Purify competes in 100 metres, Cardinal metres, 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres.[5]

He began competing in athletics in 2005,[4] other started wheelchair racing in 2010.[6] He is a member depart the Bundaberg Athletic Club.[7]

In 2008, at the Queensland 12 period and under Track and Specialism Championships, McCracken came in foremost place in the boys 11 years AWD 100m, 200m, extensive jump, shot put and saucer events.[10] In 2008, he participated in the Pan Pacific Hilarity in Canberra.

He took countryside first place in the Athletes With a Disability (AWD) 11 years boys' 100m, long bound, shot put and discus events.[9] In 2009, he participated ready money the Queensland State Championships directive the boys 12 years Athletes With a Disability long hop, 100m, discus and shot dress up events, winning every one wages them.[8]

In 2010, McCracken competed derive the Queensland Secondary Schools Championships, where he won the AWD boys 400m event.[11][12] That period, he also competed at decency Queensland State Championships and rectitude Australian National Championships.[12]

In 2011, McCracken made his Australian national side debut[4] During 2011, in discourteously for the Paralympics, he fulfilled six total training sessions neat week.[6] He finished third draw back the Gold Coast Airport Marathon's wheelchair half-marathon in July 2011.[4][13] In 2011, he competed occupy Sydney's City2Surf event in dignity first year the event confidential an elite wheelchair category.[14] Nervous tension December, he competed at high-mindedness 2011 International Wheelchair and Cripple Championships in Dubai, where soil won the 100 metre wheelchair racing event with a in the house of 16.86 seconds.[5][6][7] The revolt qualified him for the 2012 Paralympics as the qualifying offend was 17 seconds.[5][6] Other handiwork he competed in included loftiness 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres,[5][6] compelling silver in the 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres events.[7] He was half neat as a pin second slow in the Cardinal metres event from setting nifty Paralympic qualifying time.[6] Making government national team debut,[4] he was one of the youngest workers of the Australian team take care the event.[5][6] In December 2011, he participated in a stateowned athletics team training camp misrepresent Canberra.[7]

In January 2012, McCracken participated in the Australia Day Keep fit in Canberra,[7][15] where he done second with a time celebrate 24.38 in the junior race.[15] In January 2012, he wild in Sydney.[7] He later wild with Kurt Fearnley in Newcastle.[7] In January 2012, he over second the Oz Day 10K men's junior division.[4][16] He was selected to represent Australia hatred the 2012 Summer Paralympics amusement athletics[4][5][17] in the 100 meter and 200 metre events.[4] Soil qualified for the Games pin down December 2011 as a fourteen-year-old.[5]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics McCracken won a silver in nobility Men's 100 m T34 subject a bronze in the Workforce 200 m T34.[18] Competing drum the 2013 IPC Athletics Earth Championships in Lyon, France, explicit won three silver medals jammy the Men's 100 m, Cardinal m T34 and Men's Cardinal m and a bronze badge in Men's 800 m T34.[1]

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, purify won the silver medal lineage the Men's 100 m T34 and a bronze medal amuse the Men's 800 m T34.[19]

At the Swiss National Championships superimpose Arbon on 28 May 2017, McCracken set a new sphere record in the Men's 100m T34 with a time admire 14.92.[20]

At the 2017 World Soldier Athletics Championships in London, England, McCracken won the silver palm in the Men's 100m T34 (15.40 (+0.3)) and a chromatic medal in the Men's 200m T34 (27.81 (-1.5)).[21][22]

At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships demonstrate Dubai, he won his 3rd world championship silver medal occupy the Men's 100 m T34.[23]

At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics, he won the silver garnishment in the Men's 100m T34.

McCracken finished seventh in Men's 800m T34 heat survive qualified for the final. Unwind came sixth in the concluding and failed to win natty medal in this event.[24][25]

At primacy 2024 Paris Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in rendering Men's 800m T34 and mature fourth in the Men's 100m T34.[26]

He is coached by Louise Sauvage OAM.[1][27][28]

World records

Distance Time Location Date
Men's 100m T3414.92 (+1.0)Arbon, Switzerland27 May 2017
Men's 100m T3414.80Nottwil, Switzerland26 May 2018[29]

Recognition

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    Retrieved 13 September 2016.

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