Jodi Elkington

Jodi Elkington-Jones (born 17 May 1993) is an Australian athlete who has cerebral palsy. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and has also competed in two Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the 2014 Games in the F37/38 long jump. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics.

Personal Elkington was born on 17 May 1993 and this effects her mobility on the right side of her body.

Athletics

Elkington is a T37 classified athlete competing in 100 m, 200 m and long jump events. While there, she had health issues related to the food. She was Australia's only elite athlete with a disability at the Games. She competed in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in four events with her best result being fourth in the Women's 400 m T37.

Prior to the 2012 London Paralympics, she was an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) scholarship holder and was coached by Iryna Dvoskina. Elkington finished 6th fastest in the Women's T37 400m at the 2012 London Games with a time of 1:11.49. She also placed 4th with the rest of her team in the Women's 4 × 100 m Relay – T35/T38 class.

After the London Paralympics, gave up athletics for a short period due to the pressures of being an AIS athlete. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, she won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump T37/38.

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, she finished fifth in the Women's Long Jump T37 and twelfth in the Women's 100 m T37.

In 2015, she lives in Sydney and is a New South Wales Institute of Sport scholarship holder.