Amy Winters

Background

She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales without her lower right arm.

Education

She attended Kempsey High School and after leaving school in 1995 worked for Kempsey Shire Council.

Career

She has two older sisters. Whilst in Kempsey, she was coached by Lloyd Smith. After the Atlanta Games, She moved to Sydney after she was offered a job with Westpac under the Paralympic Employment Program for elite athletes with disabilities.

In Sydney she was coached by Colonel Wright.

She felt under enormous pressure going into the Sydney Games due to being the 200 m title holder from Atlanta. She said "“I did feel a lot of pressure, but the greatest pressure I felt was the pressure I put on myself.

I remember before my final in the 200m, I felt like I was going to be physically sick. I’d never felt like that before.

She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in the lead up to the Athens Games and was coached by Iryna Dvoskina.

She retired in 2005. In 2012, she is Australian Paralympic Committee"s Manager, Marketing and Sponsorship. 1996 - OAM

2000 - Australian Sports Medal

2009 - inducted in the Little Athletics Roll of Excellence

2012 - inducted into New South Wales Hall of Champions

2014 - inducted into the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre Path of Champions.

Achievements

• She won seven medals at three Paralympics including five gold medals. At the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships in Berlin, she won silver medals in the Women"s 100, and 200 m and long jump T45-46 events. She made her Paralympics debut as an 18-year-old at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she won a gold medal in the Women"s 200 m T42-46 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Women"s 100 m T42-46 event. At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham, she won gold medals in the Women"s 100 m and 200m T46 events. At 2000 Sydney Games, she won two gold medals in the 100 m T46 and 200 m T46 events, and a bronze medal in the 400 m T46 event. My usual mindset was ‘whatever happens happens." She won two more gold medals at the 2004 Athens Games in the 100 m and 200 m T46 events.