 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Harding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1991-05-11) 11 May 1991 (age 33) Perth, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sam Harding (born 11 May 1991) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and paratriathlete. His classification is T12 and competed in 400m and the 800m events. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics in athletics and has been selected to compete in paratriathlon at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
Personal
Harding was born in Perth on 11 May 1991. He has a visual impairment called choroideremia, which is a hereditary condition and has resulted in him losing most of his peripheral vision. Harding attended Wesley College in Perth where he competed in rowing and completed a course in massage therapy.
Sporting career
Harding began his sporting career as a tandem cyclist competing for Western Australia.
Athletics
He then switched to running after winning three gold medals, in the 400m, 800m and 1500m, at the 2009 Paralympic Youth Games in Melbourne. After this success, Harding was recognised by the Australian Paralympic Committee's Paralympic Talent Search Program and fast-tracked into a talent development camp held in Canberra.
Between 2010 and 2012, Harding received a dAIS scholarship and moved to the Australian Institute of Sport to train.
In 2010, Harding competed in the 2010 national championships where he won bronze in the 800m. He was then selected to represent Australia at the 2011 International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships, in Christchurch, where he achieved a personal best and German Nationals where he finished fifth in both 800m events.
Harding was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games. However, he fell ill prior to his event, the T13 800m, and was unable to compete.
He competed at the 91st and 92nd Australian Athletics Championships where he won silver in the men's 800m and 400m respectively.
In 2015, Harding won silver in the Men's 400m at the 2015 IPC Athletics Grand Prix held in Brisbane.
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the Men's 1500 m T13, he finished eleventh.
He was coached by Iryna Dvoskina and Philo Saunders at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
Triathlon
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England with guide Luke Harvey, he won the silver medal in the Men's PTVI. Harding went into the 2024 Paris Paralympics ranked eighth in the Men's PTVI and finished fifth with guide is Aaron Royle, Olympian at the 2016 and 2020 Games.
Recognition
- 2022 - Canberra Sports Awards - Para Athlete of the Year
References
- ^ "IPC Biography". IPC. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "Para-athletics Team Set To 'Do What Australia Does Best' At Tokyo 2020". Paralympics Australia. 23 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ "Sam HARDING (WA)". Australian Athletics Historical Results. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- ^ "Sam Harding". APC. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "The Bulletin" (PDF). Statewide Vision Resource Centre. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "dAIS Athlete Grant". AIS - Grant Funding Report. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "WAIS Annual Report" (PDF). The Western Australian Institute of Sport. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "91st Aust Athletics Champs". Athletics Australia. Archived from the original on 21 March 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "92nd Australian AthleticsChampionships" (PDF). Athletics Australia. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 August 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "QLD Track Classic & IPC Grand Prix". QLD Athletics. Archived from the original on 14 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- "Sam Harding". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- "2022 Commonwealth Games Results". Commonwealth Games Australia. 16 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- "Mission Complete For Seine-sational Parker | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 2 September 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
External links
- Sam Harding at Paralympics Australia
- Sam Harding at the International Paralympic Committee
- Sam Harding at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- World Triathlon Results
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic triathletes for Australia
- Living people
- 1991 births
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Triathletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
- Australian male middle-distance runners
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian male triathletes
- Commonwealth Games medallists in triathlon
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Triathletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at Wesley College, Perth
- Competitors in athletics with visual impairment
- Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
- Sportsmen from Western Australia
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games