Isis Holt


Isis Holt is a Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She is affected by the condition cerebral palsy. Holt won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m at the 2015 and 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals and a bronze medal.

Personal life

Holt was born on 3 July 2001 with cerebral palsy, which affects both sides of her body. She attends school at Brunswick Secondary College. She previously attended Melbourne Girls Grammar.

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 and the Women's 200m T35. At the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Canberra on 7 February 2016, she smashed her 200m T35 world record by running 28.38. At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won silver medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T25 and a bronze medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Relay T35-38.
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London she won gold medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T35. In winning the 100 m she broke the world record with a time of 13.43. This time broke the world record she previously held by 0.14 seconds By winning the 100 m and 200 m Holt defended titles won at the 2015 World Championships. Two weeks prior to leaving for the World Championships she was hospitalised with tonsillitis.

World records

Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability." She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

Recognition