Jodi Willis-Roberts

Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts, (born 24 April 1967) is a visually impaired Australian Paralympic athlete and goalballer.

Biography

Willis-Roberts was born in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. She first competed at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics with the Australia women's national goalball team, when it finished seventh. She moved to athletics and at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands, she won a bronze medal in the women's shot put B2. At the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Shot Put B2 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, That year, she competed in her home country in the 2000 Sydney Paralympics where she won a gold medal in the F12 shot put and a bronze in the discus throw. In 2011, she was part of the Australian national goalball team that finished sixth at the IBSA Goalball World Cup. In 2014, she lived in Bundaberg, Queensland.