Athletics - Heath Francis

Australian Sports Commission

Biography

DOB: 16/11/1981
Newcastle, NSW
Australia

Questions & Answers

  • 1

    What is your most significant achievement in sport?

    Winning 3 gold medals at the 2006 IPC World Athletics Championships in Assens, Holland in September and winning 500m Gold at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

  • 2

    What is your major sporting goal?

    To run the perfect race at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

  • 3

    What keeps you busy outside sport?

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Australia is one of only two nations to have competed in every modern Summer Olympic Games

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700 Athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS
40 Thousand kilometres were swum by Petria Thomas whilst at the AIS
1 million people visit the AIS each year