Introduction
Isis Holt (born 3 July 2001) is a Paralympic athlete from Australia competing in T35 sprint events. She is affected by the condition cerebral palsy. Holt won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m at the 2015 and 2017 World Para Athletics Championships. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won two silver medals and a bronze medal.
Personal life
Holt was born on 3 July 2001 with cerebral palsy, which affects both sides of her body. She attends school at Brunswick Secondary College. She previously attended Melbourne Girls Grammar.
Athletics
Holt took up athletics in 2014. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha in her first major overseas competition, she won gold medals in world record time in two events: Women's 100m T35 (13.63 (w: +2.0) world record) and the Women's 200m T35 (28.57 (w: +1.5 world record). At the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Canberra on 7 February 2016, she smashed her 200m T35 world record by running 28.38 (w: +0.2). At the 2016 Australian Athletics Championships in Sydney, she broke world records in winning the 100m and 200m Ambulant events.
At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won silver medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T25 and a bronze medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Relay T35-38.
At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London she won gold medals in the Women's 100 m T35 and Women's 200 m T35. In winning the 100 m she broke the world record with a time of 13.43. This time broke the world record she previously held by 0.14 seconds By winning the 100 m and 200 m Holt defended titles won at the 2015 World Championships. Two weeks prior to leaving for the World Championships she was hospitalised with tonsillitis.
World records
| Distance | Time / Distance |
Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's 200m T35 | 29.49 | Brisbane | 29 March 2015 |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.63 (w: +2.0) | Doha | 29 October 2015 |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.57 (w: +1.5) | Doha | 24 October 2015 |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.38 (w: +0.2) | Canberra | 7 February 2016 |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.57 (w: -0.8) | Sydney | 1 April 2016 |
| Women's 200m T35 | 28.30 (w: +1.1) | Sydney | 3 April 2016 |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.43 (+0.9) | London | 19 July 2017 |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.37 (+0.8) | Gold Coast, Queensland | 17 February 2018 |
| Women's 100m T35 | 13.36 (+0.5) | Sydney | 17 March 2018 |
Her philosophy is "My ability is bigger than my disability." She is coached in Melbourne by Nick Wall and a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.
Recognition
- 2015 Victorian Junior Athlete of the Year
- 2015 Athletics Australia Female Para-athlete of the Year
- 2016 Athletics Australia Female Para-athlete of the Year
- 2017 Victorian Disability Sport and Recreation Awards – Deakin University Female Sportsperson of the Year
- 2017 Victorian Institute of Sport 2XU Youth Award
- 2017 Athletics Australia Female Para-athlete of the Year