Michelle Rzepecki
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | Wollstonecraft, New South Wales | 6 November 1986
Height | 173 cm (68 in) (2012) |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Goalball |
Michelle Rzepecki (born 6 November 1986) is an Australian goalball player classified as a B3 competitor. She made her debut for the Australia women's national goalball team at the 2011 African-Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in goalball.[1]
Personal life
Rzepecki was born on 6 November 1986 in
Goalball
Rzepecki is a goalball player, and for visual disability sports, is classified as a B3 competitor.[2] She is a centre and winger.[3][7] She has a goalball scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.[8] Rzepecki started playing the sport in 2002.[2] She competed at the 2004 Australian National Goalball Championships, playing for the New South Wales goalball team which beat the Queensland goalball team in the finals.[2] In 2011, Rzepecki made her national team debut during the African-Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition.[2][3][9][10][11] She played in the game against the New Zealand women's national goalball team that Australia won.[10][11][12] As a member of the 2011 team, she finished sixth at the IBSA Goalball World Cup.[9][12][13][14]
The Australian Paralympic Committee had chosen to work on her development as a goalball player with the idea that she might be able to qualify for, and win a medal at, the
The Belles originally failed to qualify for the 2016 Paralympics after finishing third at the IBSA Goalball Asia Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China.[18] They were displaced to allow for an African team, Algeria as it turned out, to compete in goalball for the first time.[19] But following the re-allocation of Russia's spot, the Belles found themselves getting a last minute invite to Rio.They entered the tournament ranked ninth in the world.[20] They performed better this time, fighting Uzbekistan to a draw, but they needed a win or draw in their final game against Canada to progress to the quarter finals, but lost 6–0, ending their second Paralympic campaign.[19]
References
- ^ "2016 Australian Paralympic Team receives nine extra spots". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 29 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Michelle Rzepecki". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ a b c "NSW Ladies". NSW Goalball Association. Archived from the original on 7 August 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b "AAP News: OLY:Australian goalballers London bound". Australia: AAP News. 8 May 2012. WAAP97280181. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Past Scholarship Winners Archive". The Society for Australian-German Student Exchange. Archived from the original on 29 September 2003. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Mini-grant program with". Sustainable Bolivia. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Tough lesson for Aussie goalball". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Michelle Rzepecki". NSWIS. 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Goalball teams named for Paralympic showdown". Australian Paralympic Committee. 9 November 2011. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b "AAP News: SPO:Aus goalballers play for London 2012 spots". Australia: AAP News. 16 November 2011. WAAP92597477. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Aus goalballers play for London 2012 spots". Australia: Nine MSN. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ a b Deborah FitzGerald (24 November 2011). "London here we come". Inner West Courier. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ a b c d Fife, Janet (14 June 2012). "Pride of Australia nominee Georgina Kenaghan is giving her team that ring of confidence". Sydney, Australia: Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ a b Fife-Yeomans, Janet (14 June 2012). "Giving team that ring of confidence – Pride of Australia". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. p. 12. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ Tilley, Andrew (22 May 2012). "News". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 15 July 2012.
- ^ "Australian London 2012 athletes receive extra funding | London 2012 Paralympic news". insideworldparasport.biz. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "Women's Goalball". Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ^ "Curtain draw on Rio 2016 as Australian Belles claim bronze". Australian Paralympic Committee News. 13 November 2015. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ McDonald, Margie (25 August 2016). "Rio Paralympics Paralympic team grows by nine after Russian ban upheld". The Australian. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
External links
- "Michelle Rzepecki - Goalball". Australian Broadcasting Commission. Retrieved 22 May 2013.