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Vanessa Low
Vanessa Low is a German-born Australian Paralympic athlete competing in T42 sprint and long jump events.
Low was born on 17 July 1990 in Schwerin, East Germany, and grew up in Ratzeburg.In June 2006, at 15, she was struck by a train at a railway platform after losing her balance. The accident severed her left leg and left her in a coma for two months. During life-saving surgery, her doctors were forced to amputate her other leg. It took Low two years to relearn to walk using her prostheses.
Low is married to Australian Paralympic gold medallist Scott Reardon. She gained Australian nationality in June 2017.
Vanessa is a Paralympic athlete competing in sprint and long jump events. She has already participated in many events and has achieved many medals. She has participated as a representative for the country of her birth, Germany, and won 4 gold, 4 silver, and 4 bronze medals. Not just that, after moving to Australia she still continued her sports career and participated as a representative of Australia.
Behind those big achievements, in 2012 Vanessa retired from competitive sports cause of disappointment with her performance. But by the end of 2013, she was back representing Germany, this time at the World Championship in Lyon. After seeing her friend and got courage.
After she gave birth, she continued pursuing her sports career and joined the Women's Long Jump T63 at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championship and won the bronze medal.
Of all the competitions she participated in, she also got many achievements, such as
- Selected by the national German team
- compete at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships
2012 - Low qualified for both the 100m sprint and long jump events for the Summer Paralympics in London.
2013 - World Championships in Lyon. There she won two bronze medals.
2015 - Championships in Doha Silver medal
2016 - Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Low won the gold medal
2019 - World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump
2020 – Awarded Athletics Australia 2019 Female Para-athlete of the Year.
2022 – Medal of the Order of Australia for service to sport as a gold medallist at the Tokyo Paralympic Games 2020
2022 - Athletics Australia Amy Winters Award for Female Para Athlete of the Year
Vanessa makes us realize that we should be grateful for everything we have. Vanessa is a sprint and long jump athlete. As we know sprint and long jump is a sports event that uses the foot as the main element. But despite her disability, she still pursued her dream and continued her sports career. When she got into an accident, Vanessa was about our age. When we still feel lacking in what we have, she fights for her life so that her dreams can be achieved. Even after losing her leg, she still continued her career as she said that it was her dream and she enjoyed it. It motivates us to not give up and always give our best. Cause no ones know about the future. Maybe if we didn't give up, we could achieve our dreams.
"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."- Jim Rohn
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great!" -Zig Zagler
"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up" - Nelson Mandela