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Myles Gough speaks to Clifford about his remarkable race and what it could mean for his future in the sport. 1 day agoJaryd Clifford Going for Gold in Tokyo.

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With early aspirations to one day open the bowling for Australia on Boxing Day and donning the navy blue for Carlton high on his wish list Cliffords childhood dreams were derailed in primary school.

Jaryd clifford world record. Clifford is a world champion in the visually impaired category at both the 1500m and 5000m but runs in Tokyo without his guide Tim Logan who was unable to come to Japan because he was fighting an injury. Jaryd is classified as a T12 athlete. Jaryd Clifford and Michael Roeger both broke world records in Sydney on Sunday.

Often when world records are broken the obsession is with performance rather than the person but the opposite rings true for Paralympian Jaryd Clifford such is the calibre of the man. The Tokyo Games will be the second Paralympics for Clifford who made his debut as a 17-year-old in. He competed at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha and came 7th in the T1213 3000m.

What began for Jaryd Clifford as a pacing job for his teammate turned into an accidental 219 marathon debut and another Blinky T-12 World Record. When Jaryd Cliffords mum Gayle heard her son had accidentally broken a marathon world record and qualified for the event in Tokyo she wasnt surprised. The time was almost two and a half minutes off the previous world record set by El Amin Chentouf of Morocco in 2015.

Pacing fellow Paralympian Michael Roeger to a marathon world record Jaryd Clifford decided to run the full 42K and ended up with a record of. Jaryd Clifford of Australia celebrates winning the Mens 5000m T13 final during the IPC World Para Athletics Championships 2019 Dubai Photo by Bryn LennonGetty Images 2019 Getty Images After breaking multiple world records since his Paralympic Games debut at Rio 2016 the Australian long distance runner is set to light of Tokyo 2020 as he. Visually impaired distance runner Jaryd Clifford began 2021 by accidently breaking the marathon world record and hes now looking to take the year up another level with his quest for gold in Tokyo.

In January 2016 his time of 3min 596s in the 1500m qualified him for the 2016 Rio Paralympics and he took. Clifford only entered the Tokyo Games qualifying marathon in Sydney to pace teammate Michael Roeger but on the urging of Saunders he not only completed what was his first ever marathon he did it in a world record time of 21908. Racing in 34 degrees temperatures and 65 per cent humidity Clifford ran himself to the point of exhaustion.

In 2014 Clifford came 4th in the 3000m at the Australian All Schools Championships. Legally blind Clifford produced one of the most courageous displays of middle distance running by an Australian Paralympian to win a silver medal in the 5000m in brutal conditions in Tokyo on Saturday. Jaryd Clifford is a bit of both.

1 day agoJaryd Clifford is the reigning world champion in the visually impaired category for both the 1500m and 5000m. Clifford the 1500-meter world record holder runs faster than a four-minute mile. When Jaryd Cliffords mum Gayle heard her son had accidentally broken a marathon world record and qualified for the event in Tokyo she wasnt surprised.

Athletics Australia Just last week he was part of. Jaryd Clifford has accidentally broken the marathon world record in the T12 class for vision impaired athletes finishing in a time of 21908 on Sundays Athletics Australia Tokyo Qualifying. He checked off the first goal in 2016 aged 17 when he was picked to run the 1500m.

Since he was. Jaryd won a bronze medal in the mens 1500m T13 at the 2017 World Para-athletics Championships became the first Paralympian to compete at the able-bodied U20 World Championships in 2018 and was crowned a dual world champion and world record holder in the mens 1500m T13 at the 2019 World Para-athletics Championships last November. One episode 1 of our athletes diaries world record holding Paralympian Jaryd Clifford beach volleyballer Mariafe Artacho del Solar and taekwondo world num.

Since he was diagnosed with juvenile macular degeneration at the age of three Ms Clifford has watched her son.

The Physical Performance Show Jaryd Clifford World Para Athletic Bronze Medallist 1500m World Record Holder T12 13 1500m U 20 Aus 1500m Able Body Champion Pogo Physio Gold Coast