Amy Winters

Amy Louise Winters, OAM (born 19 March 1978) is an arm amputee Australian Paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at three Paralympic Games, including five gold medals.

Career

She was born in Kempsey, New South Wales, and was born without her lower right arm. Winters has two older sisters. and she attended Kempsey High School.

Whilst living in Kempsey, she was coached by Lloyd Smith. At the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships in Berlin, she won silver medals in the Women's 100m, 200m and long jump T45-46 events.

Upon finishing school in 1995, she moved to Coffs Harbour to train with Glenn Thacker before relocating to Canberra to train with Chris Nunn prior to the Atlanta Games.

She made her ParalympicGames debut as an 18-year-old at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Winters won a gold medal in the Women's 200m T42-46 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, After the Atlanta Games, she worked briefly with Kempsey Shire Council before moving to Sydney where she was offered a job with Westpac. Her role later came under the Paralympic Employment Program for elite athletes with disabilities. Once she moved to Sydney she was coached by Col Wright. At the 2004 Athens Games, she won two more gold medals in the 100m and 200m T46 events. In 2005, Winters retired from competing. and travelled to Beijing and London, liaising closely with the APC's sponsors. Winters stated that "The Hall of Champions is an illustrious list of many of the greats of Australian sport and to be considered amongst that group is extremely humbling." 2004 - ACT Sports Star of the Year (September) 2004 - Female Athlete of the Year, Paralympian of the Year Awards 2005 - Female Athlete of the Year (AWD), Athletics Australia Athlete of the Year Awards 2009 - inducted in the Little Athletics Roll of Excellence 2012 - inducted into New South Wales Hall of Champions 2014 - inducted into the Sydney Olympic Park Athletic Centre Path of Champions