AITCHISON Danielle

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
World Championships
2	200m - T36	2019	Dubai, UAE	29.86
4	100m - T36	2019	Dubai, UAE	14.60

Dani (Instagram profile, 18 Feb 2021)

Reading, swimming. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019; Paralympics New Zealand YouTube channel, 20 May 2020)

Athlete, Student

Social and Behavioral Science - University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZL

English

Hamilton City Hawks [New Zealand]

Alan MacDonald [personal], from 2018

2019 for New Zealand, World Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

She began competing in Para athletics at age 16 in 2017, at the Halberg Junior Disability Games in New Zealand. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

She comes from an enthusiastic sporting family that always supported her to do physical activities. "I did ballet and played netball and hockey. I also tried athletics, where I sprinted alongside the able-bodied kids at the Te Aroha club [New Zealand]. I played hockey for the school team and I enjoyed it but I found playing a team sport tough because of my lack of hearing." In 2017 she took part in badminton, swimming, triathlon and athletics at the Halberg Junior Disability Games in Auckland, New Zealand, and after realising she had a talent in athletics, she went on to compete at other events and began training for international competitions. "At the Halberg Disability Games I took part in athletics and afterwards a coach came up to me and said I had talent and should pursue it." (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019; athletics.org.nz, 06 Jun 2019; stuff.co.nz, 05 Feb 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

New Zealand sprinter Zoe Hobbs. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

Her mother Tracy. (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

"Focus only on yourself, you can only control what you do." (Athlete, 06 Nov 2019)

In 2018 she was named Best Female Para Athlete at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletic Association [NZSSAA] track, road and field championships. (NZ Paralympic Team Twitter page, 05 Dec 2018)