Julie Russell
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Full name | Julie Elizabeth Russell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Adelaide | 20 August 1951||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Julie Elizabeth Russell (
Personal
Russell was born on 20 August 1951 in
She has been married to Paralympic athlete, coach, and administrator Eric Russell since 1979.[6] The pair met in 1977 for the first time when Eric came to Adelaide for the first National Basketball Titles.[5] Julie and Eric were then introduced officially in 1978 at the Regional Games in Broken Hill.[5]
Career
Russell won four gold medals, a silver and a bronze in athletics and archery at the 1979
Russell was selected as the Women's Representative for Weightlifting after a meeting in 1984.[5] She won a gold medal at the 1994 FESPIC Games in Beijing in the +82.5 kg event.[8] At the IPC Powerlifting World Championships, she won a silver medal in 1998 in the Women's +82.5 kg event.[3] At the European Powerlifting Championships, she won a silver medal in 1998 in the Women's +82.5 kg event and a gold medal in 1999 in the Women's +82.5 kg event.[3] She competed in powerlifting at the 2000 Sydney Games, the first Paralympics in which women could compete in the sport, after lobbying for the inclusion of women's powerlifting in the Paralympics for the past fourteen years;[9] she came seventh in the women's over 82.5 kg powerlifting event.[10] She was coached in powerlifting by Ray Epstein.[9]
She received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000 for "outstanding contribution to Paralympic Powerlifting".[2] She has refereed powerlifting events at the Paralympics and Commonwealth Games since the 2004 Athens Paralympics.[4][11][12]
References
- ^ a b "and they go north". The Advertiser. 15 October 1979.
- ^ a b "Russell, Julie Elizabeth". It's an Honour. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ Australian Paralympic Committee. Archivedfrom the original on 5 December 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ a b c "Winner of 57 medals, now at the 2006 Commonwealth Games". CRS Australia. 17 March 2006. Archived from the original on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Eric Russell and Julie Russell interviewed by Rob Linn in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project". National Library of Australia. 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ "2011–2012 Directory". Rotary District 9500. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Dumapong cops silver in FESPIC liftfest". The Philippine Star. 2 November 2002. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ The Hobart Mercury. 18 October 2000. p. 56.
- ^ "Women's Powerlifting Over 82.5 kg Results". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 31 August 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Good luck!" (PDF). No Limits!. Adelaide, South Australia: Wheelchair Sports South Australia. August 2008. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
- ^ "Powerlifting: A Guide for Australian Athletes, Coaches and Officials" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.