Natalie Smith
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Smith
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| Nationality | Australia | |||||||||
| Born | 23 April 1975 | |||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | |||||||||
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Natalie Smith (born 23 March 1975) is an Australian Paralympic shooter. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won a bronze medal. She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.[1] These will be her second Games.
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Personal
Smith was born on 23 March 1975.[2] She was originally from Fitzgibbon, Queensland.[3] When she was 34 years old, she had an accident while hiking that left her a paraplegic.[2][4] Prior to her accident, she was a skydiver and equestrian rider.[4] She is married to Stuart and in 2014 she gave birth to a son Daniel. [5]
Shooting is a family sport, as her grandfather is Norman Lutz who was supposed to represent Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics but ultimately missed the Games because of a heart attack.[4] She lives in Brisbane and works as a nurse. [5]
Shooting
Smith is an SH1 classified shooter competing in 10m Air Rifle Prone and 10m Air Rifle Standing events.[2][6]
Smith started competitive shooting in 2010 following an Australian Paralympic Committee talent search.[2] She made the Australian Paralympic shooting shadow team in 2011.[7] At the 2011 IPC World Cup meet in Fort Benning, she won a gold medal in the SH1 standing air rifle event.[2] In the process, she set an Australian record.[4] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in shooting.[2][6][8] The Games were her first.[3] There she participated in the Women's 10 m Air Rifle standing SH1 and Mixed 10 m Air Rifle prone SH1 – winning a bronze in the 10 m Air Rifle standing.[9]
In November 2015 at the International Paralympic Committee World Cup in Fort Benning, United States, she won the gold medal in the R8 SH1 3 Position rifle event and set a new Australian record of 576 in qualification.[10]
In 2015, she has a scholarship with the Queensland Academy of Sport.[11]
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- ↑ Results for Natalie Smith from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- Paralympic shooters of Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Shooters at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- People from Brisbane
- Victorian Institute of Sport alumni
- Australian female sport shooters
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
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