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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1987-07-31)31 July 1987 (age 37) Melbourne | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hannah MacDougall (born 31 July 1987)[1] is a Paralympic swimming, cycling and triathlon competitor from Australia.
She was born on 31 July 1987 inMelbourne.[1] She attendedKorowa Anglican Girls' School.[2] In 2010, she completed a double degree in the Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science/Bachelor of Commerce – Sport Management atDeakin University.[3] In 2017, she completed a PhD atLa Trobe University focusing on athlete well-being,[4][5] as well as working part-time as an Athlete Career and Education advisor at theVictorian Institute of Sport.[6] She is a Red Dust role model.[7]
Macdougall's stated that:Participating in sport has been an extremely empowering experience for me; it has allowed me to increase my confidence, strengthen my social support networks, and provided meaning to my life.[8] She creditsDon Elgin as providing guidance and mentoring during her Paralympic career.[9]
Macdougall was born without a right foot and fibula and competes inS10 swimming events.[10][11] Macdougall became involved in competitive swimming in 1998.[11] She represented Australia at the2002 FESPIC Games and won two gold medals. In 2002, she broke the world record in 50m Women's Backstroke S10.[11] She won a bronze medal at the2004 Athens Games in the Women's 4 × 100 m Medley 34 pts event.[12] At the 2006IPC Swimming World Championships, she was a finalist in Women's 100m Backstroke s10. She competed at the2008 Beijing Games but did not win any medals.[7] In 2009, she competed at the 1st World Short Course Swimming Championships and won a bronze medal in the Women's 100m Individual Medley and was a finalist in Women's 100m backstroke, Women's 200m Individual Medley and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay.[5][7]
Macdougall has stated during her swimming career she had over come surgery, shoulder injuries, missing team selections by .8 of a second, and dislocating a kneecap only a week out from the Athens Paralympic Games.[7] Macdougall has also been involved in swimming teaching.[11] She has been aVictorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2002.[5]
In 2010, she took up cycling in theC4 classification.[9] After only three weeks of training, she won two gold medals at the Victorian Championships and four weeks later won two silver medals at the Australian Para Road Cycling Championships in the Women's Time Trial and Road Race.[9] In 2011, won two bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial and Pursuit at the 2011 Australian Track Cycling Championships.[9] In 2012, two bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial and Road Race at the Australian Para Road Cycling Championships.[9] She has beenselected to represent Australia at the 2016UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships inMontichiari, Italy.[13]
At the2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships,Pietermaritzburg,South Africa, she finished fourth in the Women's Time Trial C4 and fifth in the Women's Road Race C4-5.[14] She won silver medals in the Women's Time Trial C4 and Women's Road Race C4 at2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships,Maniago,Italy.[15]
At the2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships,Emmen, Netherlands, she finished fourth in the Women's Time Trial C4 and fifth in the Women's Road Race C4.[16]
Macdougall is classified as aPTS4 triathlete. In 2022, she won the Oceania Championships in the Women's PTS4 and won her first World Cup in 2023 atMalaga.[17]
