Abby Craswell

BIOGRAPHY

Queensland teenager, Abby Craswell, selected as a developing athlete for the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, now makes her Paralympic Games debut in Paris.

At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships Abby placed sixth in the T36 100m (15.15) and eighth in the T36 200m 32.96.  In early 2024 she lined up in her second world championships in Kobe Japan where was fifth in the 100m (15.31) and sixth in the 200m (34.40). 

Domestically in 2024 she improved her 100m PB to 14.42 and at the Paralympic Games in Paris will compete in just the T36 100m.

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Queensland teenager, Abby Craswell has been selected as a developing athlete for the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships to be held in Paris in July.

The 100m T36 sprinter started doing athletics when she was about 11 in 2015, “I made my first Nationals in that year. I have been working towards just improving over those years and it has become a bit more serious, but at the start it was just about finding my niche and the events that I liked and thrived in.”

Paris will be her first Australian team and first trip overseas and she is looking to absorb as much as she can.

Coached by her Dad, Andrew Craswell, she currently trains five or six times a week at the track, gym and pool.

“It’s quite a lot! I have to plan it out to the minute to make sure everything fits in, it’s a good set up with the Queensland Academy of Sport, Dad and the whole community around me.”

She holds all the Australian Long Jump records in the under-16 to open T36 classification.

Abby is currently studying a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours) at Griffith University.

@ 23 August 2024 david.tarbotton@athletics.org.au