Sarah Edmiston
 Sarah Edmiston in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sarah Edmiston |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 8 September 1975 Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Discus, Shot Put |
| Coached by | Paul Edmiston |
Sarah Edmiston (born 8 September 1975) is an Australian Paralympic athlete who specialises in the discus and shot put. At her first major international competition, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Discus F44 at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships and followed this up with a silver medal in the same event at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. She also won the bronze medal in the Women's Discus F64 at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.[1]
Personal
[edit | edit source]Edmiston was born on 8 September 1975 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. In 2017, she moved to Perth, Western Australia.[2] She is married to former Australian hurdler Paul Edmiston and they have four children.[3]
Athletics
[edit | edit source]Edmiston started athletics with Bungaree Little Athletics Club.[3] At the age of 19, a water skiing accident put a halt to her athletics career. She recommenced throwing again at the age of 25 but was only classified after the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[3] She is classified as a F44.[2] She is coached by her husband Paul Edmiston and is a member of the Perth Track and Field Club.[2] At her first major international competition, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Discus F44 at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England with a throw of 33.80m.[4] In addition, she finished seventh in the Women's Shot Put F44 with a throw of 8.04m.[5]
In 2016, Edmiston was awarded a Western Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship.[6] At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she won the silver medal in the Women's Discus F44 with a throw of 36.43m.[7]
Edmiston competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo,[8] winning the bronze medal in the Women's Discus F64 with an Oceania record throw of 37.85m.[9]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal in the Women's Discus F42-44/61-64.[10] Edmiston at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris threw 35.11m to finish in fourth place of the Women's Discus F64.[11]
At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she finished seventh in the Women's Discus throw F44.[12]
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Sarah Edmiston at Athletics Australia (archived 2025, archive 2019)
- Sarah Edmiston at Australian Athletics Historical Results
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- Sarah Edmiston at Commonwealth Games AustraliaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Sarah Edmiston at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 1975 births
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Athletes from Lower Hutt
- Australian women discus throwers
- Australian women shot putters
- 20th-century Australian women
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in athletics