Saturday, September 18, 2010

It's a Clean Sweep as Nikola hits her Stride

17 Sep 10 by Nick Berrett

Nikola Sibley won every event she entered, broke three state records and came second in the Tracey Freeman Female Athlete of the Meet award.

IT didn’t take long for Nikola Sibley to make her mark at the 2010 Queensland under-age AWD athletics championships recently.
Nikola won every event she entered, broke three state records and came second in the Tracey Freeman Female Athlete of the Meet award.
It was an impressive effort, given that it was the first time the Woodford athlete had entered a major event for athletes with a disability (AWD).
Nikola has Stargardt’s disease , which is a genetically inherited juvenile macular degeneration.
She set records in under-12 javelin (breaking a 24-year record in the process), under-12 discus and under-12 200m, while also winning the 100m and 60m.
And there is plenty of room for improvement.
``I didn’t even do my personal best for javelin but I still broke the record,’’ Nikola said.
Mother Ann-Jay said event organisers were impressed with Nikola’s dominance.
``A talent scout from the Paralympics was there and they asked us if she was coming back next year,’’ she said.
Nikola’s team, Sunshine Coast, won the overall team prize for the meet.
The multi-talented athlete, who competes at Wamuran Little Athletics, will compete in the pool at the state championship swimming carnival from October 23-24, at Chandler. However, she said her favourite events were on dry land.
``I would have to say track and field because there is more opportunity to compete,’’ Nikola said.

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