CLAY Liz

Australia
Athletics
9 May 1995
26
Female
GOLD COAST, QLD
 
Australia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ATH Athletics Women's 100m Hurdles  

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Olympic Stadium - Track
Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1 - Heat 2
Finished
Olympic Stadium - Track
Women's 100m Hurdles Semi-Final 2
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Liz (Facebook page, 19 Apr 2021)
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Surfing, spending time with friends. (pickstar.pro, 18 Apr 2021)
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Athlete
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University of Sydney, Australia
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English
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Sharon Hannan [personal], AUS
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In 2019 she suffered a hamstring injury in the first race of her season. She had six weeks of rehabilitation before returning to competition. Later in the season she fell in training and fractured her fibula, needing 12 weeks of recovery. (Instagram profile, 20 Apr 2021)

In 2018 she broke her foot competing in Europe and was forced to return to Australia early. (Instagram profile, 20 Apr 2021)

In 2015 she sustained stress fractures to both femurs, both tibias and a navicular bone [foot]. (Instagram profile, 20 Apr 2021)

She missed the 2014 World Junior Championships in Eugene, OR, United States of America, due to suffering a foot fracture at a pre-departure training camp. (Instagram profile, 20 Apr 2021)
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"I played every sport under the sun [as a teenager], so I had muscles, really defined calves and glutes. My main hobby was ballet, but I was too muscly to continue with that so I turned to running and then hurdling." (trueprotein.com.au, 24 Mar 2020; womenshealth.com.au, 06 Sep 2019)
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To compete in the 100m hurdles final at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (worldathletics.org, 03 Mar 2021; athletics.com.au, 06 May 2021)
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She trains five days a week. Two days per week she does both track and gym sessions, and has two days focusing on sprinting. She devotes one day a week to weight training. (trueprotein.com.au, 24 Mar 2020)
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Australian hurdler Sally Pearson. (athletics.com.au, 18 May 2017)

General Interest

General
INJURY WOES
She says that suffering a series of injuries led to her having doubts about her sporting career. "I have had my fair share of injuries and broken feet and femurs and shins. I have had all that. Most athletes go through it but I have been through it a lot. I thought things would click a lot sooner than they did. But I rode the wave. I think there have definitely been more lows than highs. There were definitely moments when I thought, 'Is this ever going to happen to me, am I chipping away at something that is beyond my reach?'" (theaustralian.com.au, 19 Feb 2021)

COVID-19 IMPACT
She believes the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo has improved her chances at the Games. "If the Olympics were held last year [in 2020], I would have just been a lane filler. In the team. Got the uniform. Great, but I wouldn't have made a semi. Now, if I can stay on the path I'm in good contention for the final." (7news.com.au, 28 Mar 2021)

COACHING
She has coached athletics at Knox Grammar School and Emmanuel College in Australia. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2019)

FURTHER EDUCATION
In addition to a bachelor's degree in applied science at the University of Sydney, she has studied for a bachelor's degree in marketing at Griffith University in Australia. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2019; 7news.com.au, 28 Mar 2021)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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