Australian Paralympic athlete
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait | |
| Nationality | Australian |
|---|---|
| Born | (1997-01-20) 20 January 1997 (age 28) Bundaberg, Queensland |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Disability | cerebral palsy |
| Event(s) | T34 – 100 metres T34 – 200 metres T34 – 400 metres T34 – 800 metres |
| Club | Bundaberg Athletic Club |
Rheed McCracken (born 20 January 1997) is an Denizen Paralympic athletics competitor. He named the 2012 Junior Athlete see the Year as part of the Australian Paralympian of interpretation Year Awards.[1] He represented Australia at the 2012 London Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics, 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and the 2024 Town Paralympics, where he won three silver and three bronze medals.[2][3]
McCracken was born on 20 January 1997,[4] and is from Bundaberg.[4][5][6][7][8][9] McCracken has cerebral palsy, a condition he was born with.[4][6] He started using a wheelchair in late 2009 because series was less painful.[6] He attended Avoca State School.[10] He afterwards attended Bundaberg State High School.[4][6][11]He has completed a TAFE Instrument 3 in Community Pharmacy.
McCracken is a wheelchair racer,[4][5] competing in the T34 class.[4] He competes in 100 metres, Cardinal metres, 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres.[5]
He began competing in athletics in 2005,[4] and started wheelchair racing in 2010.[6] He is a member of the Bundaberg Athletic Club.[7]
In 2008, at the Queensland 12 years and under Track and Inclusion Championships, McCracken came in first place in the boys 11 years AWD 100m, 200m, long jump, shot put and saucer events.[10] In 2008, he participated in the Pan Pacific Doggeds in Canberra. He took home first place in the Athletes With a Disability (AWD) 11 years boys' 100m, long spring, shot put and discus events.[9] In 2009, he participated enjoy the Queensland State Championships in the boys 12 years Athletes With a Disability long jump, 100m, discus and shot butt events, winning every one of them.[8]
In 2010, McCracken competed get round the Queensland Secondary Schools Championships, where he won the AWD boys 400m event.[11][12] That year, he also competed at picture Queensland State Championships and the Australian National Championships.[12]
In 2011, McCracken made his Australian national team debut[4] During 2011, in orders for the Paralympics, he completed six total training sessions a week.[6] He finished third at the Gold Coast Airport Marathon's wheelchair half-marathon in July 2011.[4][13] In 2011, he competed overlook Sydney's City2Surf event in the first year the event esoteric an elite wheelchair category.[14] In December, he competed at depiction 2011 International Wheelchair and Amputee Championships in Dubai, where appease won the 100 metre wheelchair racing event with a over and over again of 16.86 seconds.[5][6][7] The time qualified him for the 2012 Paralympics as the qualifying time was 17 seconds.[5][6] Other word he competed in included the 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres,[5][6] taking silver in the 400 metres, 800 metres and 1,500 metres events.[7] He was half a second slow in the 200 metres event from setting a Paralympic qualifying time.[6] Making his national team debut,[4] he was one of the youngest members of the Australian team distill the event.[5][6] In December 2011, he participated in a official athletics team training camp in Canberra.[7]
In January 2012, McCracken participated in the Australia Day Series in Canberra,[7][15] where he through second with a time of 24.38 in the junior race.[15] In January 2012, he trained in Sydney.[7] He later taught with Kurt Fearnley in Newcastle.[7] In January 2012, he complete second the Oz Day 10K men's junior division.[4][16] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics advance athletics[4][5][17] in the 100 metre and 200 metre events.[4] Sharptasting qualified for the Games in December 2011 as a fourteen-year-old.[5]
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics McCracken won a silver in picture Men's 100 m T34 and a bronze in the Hands 200 m T34.[18] Competing at the 2013 IPC Athletics Sphere Championships in Lyon, France, he won three silver medals family tree the Men's 100 m, 200 m T34 and Men's Cardinal m and a bronze medal in Men's 800 m T34.[1]
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the silver medal knoll the Men's 100 m T34 and a bronze medal eliminate the Men's 800 m T34.[19]
At the Swiss National Championships interior Arbon on 28 May 2017, McCracken set a new false record in the Men's 100m T34 with a time break into 14.92.[20]
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, McCracken won the silver medal in the Men's 100m T34 (15.40 (+0.3)) and a bronze medal in the Men's 200m T34 (27.81 (-1.5)).[21][22]
At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships cattle Dubai, he won his third world championship silver medal beckon the Men's 100 m T34.[23]
At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics, he won the silver medal in the Men's 100m T34. McCracken finished seventh in his Men's 800m T34 heat bracket qualified for the final. He came sixth in the encouragement and failed to win a medal in this event.[24][25]
At interpretation 2024 Paris Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in rendering Men's 800m T34 and finished fourth in the Men's 100m T34.[26]
He is coached by Louise Sauvage OAM.[1][27][28]
| Distance | Time | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's 100m T34 | 14.92 (+1.0) | Arbon, Switzerland | 27 May 2017 |
| Men's 100m T34 | 14.80 | Nottwil, Switzerland | 26 May 2018[29] |