Joany Badenhorst
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Joany Badenhorst (born 10 August 1994) is a South African-born Australian
Personal
Joany Badenhorst was born on 10 August 1994 in Harrismith, South Africa.[2] Her mother Petro is a teacher and her father Peter is an architect. She has two brothers, Garrett and Peter.[3] She attended Harrismith Primary School.[4]
On 12 July 2005, whilst playing with a group of friends on her family farm, her trousers were caught in the power take-off shaft of a tractor that was clearing
Career
Before her accident, Badenhorst was an accomplished athlete who had won provincial colours in high jump and modern dance.[5] After her accident, she was fitted with a prosthetic leg, and placed second in the school 100 metres event.[3] She competed for South Africa at the Paralympic Youth Games in 2009,[3] and narrowly missed qualifying for the Australian athletics team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.[8]
Australian Paralympic snowboarding coach Peter Higgins identified Badenhorst as a likely snowboarder after the London Games, and she commenced training in this sport. In taking up snowboarding, she needed a new custom-made leg. Badenhorst said: "I need a special leg that has to be engineered differently to accommodate the different pressures and angles of snowboarding".[9]
In the lead-up to the 2014 Sochi Games, Badenhorst competed and trained in the Netherlands, Austria, and the United States.[3] By February 2014, she was ranked eighth in the world. She would have been the first female snowboarder to represent Australia at the Winter Paralympics at Sochi,[5] but was forced to withdraw from her event after injuring her left knee whilst training on the morning of the event.[6]
In February 2015, at the IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in La Molina, Spain, she won a silver medal in the Women's SB-LL2. She competed with one arm in a cast due to a fracture caused in a training accident a week before the Championships.[10]
At the 2017 IPC Para-Snowboard World Championships in Big White City, she won bronze medals in the Women's Snowboard Cross Banked Slalom and Women's Snow Board Cross Lower limb 2 impairment.[11]
Badenhorst was selected on the Australian team for 2018 Winter Paralympics but was injured in a training run just prior to the day of competition and was declared medically unfit to compete.[12] She was also the Australian flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony.
Badenhorst says that her career highlight is being Australia's first, and to date only, female representative in Para-snowboard. In addition to this, Joany states that the greatest moment in her career was winning the 2016/17 IPC World Cup Crystal Globe in Snowboard Cross.[8]
She announced her retirement in September 2019 and stated she would focus her time on studying, as she is completing a Bachelor of Journalism.[13]
Recognition
- 2018 – Co-captain with Mitchell Gourley of the Australian Team at 2018 Winter Paralympics[14]
- 2018- Winter Paralympics Opening Ceremony flag bearer, the first female Australian Winter Paralympian to be given this honour.[15]
References
- ^ "Australian Paralympic Winter Team for PyeongChang 2018 announced". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ^ "Joany Badenhorst". International Paralympic Committee Alpine Skiing Profile. Retrieved 10 February 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c d e f g Sygall, David (16 November 2013). "After a terrible trauma, Joany Badenhorst finds her feet in Winter Paralympics team". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ a b Kok, Dirk (13 July 2005). "Tractor rips off girls leg". South Africa News. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 13 April 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Badenhorst out of Sochi para-snowboard". Special Broadcasting Service. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ "Joany's Teen Camp" (PDF). Inside APC. Australian Paralympic Committee. May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
- ^ Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the originalon 10 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ Pattison, Tanya (25 March 2013). "Joany reaches for new heights". Area News. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ^ "Dutch delight as Vos and Mentel-Spee land world titles in La Molina". International Paralympic Committee News, 28 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ "A second bronze for Badenhorst". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
- ^ "Winter Paralympics: Australian para-snowboarder Joany Badenhorst crashes in training, ruled out of Games". ABC News. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ^ "Joany Badenhorst announces retirement". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
- ^ "2018 Australian Paralympic Team Co-captains announced". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ "Badenhorst becomes first female Australian Paralympic Winter Flag Bearer". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
External links
- Joany Badenhorst at the Australian Paralympic Committee at the Wayback Machine (archived 2014-02-10)
- Joany Badenhorst at the International Paralympic Committee
- Joany Badenhorst at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Joany Badenhorst at World Para Snowboard