Claire Keefer

Claire Keefer (born 5 May 1995) is a short stature athlete from Australia. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics where she won a bronze medal. She has won a silver and bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships.

Personal She was born on 5 May 1995 with achondroplasia and is a person of short stature. Her parents Lindsay and Sue Keefer live in Withcott, Queensland. She attended St Ursula College in Toowoomba. She lives mostly in Withcott, Queensland. She works part-time as a child care worker.

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a national record throw of 7.62m. She finished fourth in the Women's Discus F41. She has received financial assistance from Aim For the Stars Foundation, the Layne Beachley Foundation. She visits the Queensland Academy of Sport in Brisbane four times per week to undertake technical coaching.

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England, she won the silver medal in the Women's Shot Put F41 with a throw of 8.44m. At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, she threw the shot put 9.19 to win the bronze medal Women's Shot Put F41.

Keefer announced her retirement from competition in April 2021.