In Australia, we identify as a sporting nation, and athletes can become role models for the general population. I want to be able to use that platform to help, and it is a great initiative from the AIS to be linking in with such a great organisation as Lifeline because mental health and suicide statistics are at an all-time high, and increasing.

It is a horrible tragedy, and one that has affected me personally - a close family friend and the partner of one of my relatives have both passed away. Therefore, you see the grief left behind, but you also think about the person and how much they must have been hurting.

I acquired my injury relatively late in life; I had a horse-riding accident in 2011 when I was 19, which left me in a wheelchair. So that was a completely life-changing event and you go through your own highs and lows with such an adjustment.

I had a great support network, and a lot of it came from my family, which was lovely, but I also took the time to seek professional help through that stage, just as I see a sports psychologist to help me as a triathlete.

You can’t go back, so you just want to move forward the best way you can.