Sam Harding (athlete)
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| Born | 11 May 1991 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.[1] 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.[2]
Personal
[edit | edit source]Harding was born in Perth on 11 May 1991.[3] He has a visual impairment called choroideremia, which is a hereditary condition and has resulted in him losing most of his peripheral vision.[1] Harding attended Wesley College in Perth[1] where he competed in rowing and completed a course in massage therapy.[4]
Sporting career
[edit | edit source]Harding began his sporting career as a tandem cyclist competing for Western Australia.[4]
Athletics
[edit | edit source]He then switched to running after winning three gold medals, in the 400m, 800m and 1500m, at the 2009 Paralympic Youth Games in Melbourne.[4] 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.[5]
Between 2010 and 2012, Harding received a dAIS scholarship[6] and moved to the Australian Institute of Sport to train.[1]
In 2010, Harding competed in the 2010 national championships where he won bronze in the 800m.[4] He was then selected to represent Australia at the 2011 International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships, in Christchurch, where he achieved a personal best[1] and German Nationals where he finished fifth in both 800m events.[4]
Harding was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games.[3] However, he fell ill prior to his event, the T13 800m, and was unable to compete.[7]
He competed at the 91st and 92nd Australian Athletics Championships where he won silver in the men's 800m and 400m respectively.[8][9]
In 2015, Harding won silver in the Men's 400m at the 2015 IPC Athletics Grand Prix held in Brisbane.[10]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the Men's 1500 m T13, he finished eleventh.[11]
He was coached by Iryna Dvoskina and Philo Saunders at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.[1]
Triathlon
[edit | edit source]At the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England with guide Luke Harvey, he won the silver medal in the Men's PTVI.[12] 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.[13]
At the 2025 World Triathlon Para Championships in Wollongong, with guide Aaron Royle, he finished fourth in the Men's PTVI.[14]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]- 2022 - Canberra Sports Awards - Para Athlete of the Year
References
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External links
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- Sam Harding at Paralympics AustraliaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Sam Harding at the International Paralympic Committee
- Sam Harding at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- World Triathlon Results
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- 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 men middle-distance runners
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Australian male triathletes
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in triathlon
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Triathletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- People educated at Wesley College, Perth
- Competitors in the sport of athletics with visual impairment
- Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
- Sportsmen from Western Australia
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games