Meica Christensen

Meica Jayne Horsburgh (née Christensen; born 24 February 1989) is an Australian goalball player. She began playing the sport in 2004, the same year she made her national team debut. After the national team took a three-year break, she was named the captain in 2010 and played in the Goalball World Championships. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and was at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Personal

Horsburgh was born in Wynnum North, Queensland, on 24 February 1989. She has a visual disability, with partial sight. and played in a goalball demonstration game there in 2004. but was living in Wellington Point again by 2011.

Goalball

Horsburgh is a goalball player, In 2005, she played in the New Zealand Goalball Nationals for the Queensland women's goalball team. as part of a ten-team Malmö Women's International Cup that included seven teams that had qualified for the 2004 Summer Paralympics.

She was the national team captain again in 2011, and was with the team during the 2011 IBSA Africa Oceania Goalball Regional Champions, which served as the Paralympic qualifying tournament. She also played in the final match against New Zealand women's national goalball team. Australia won the game against New Zealand by a score of 6–2, Horsburgh scored three goals,

Horsburgh was named to the Aussie Belles team going to the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She was the team's longest serving member going into the Games, The country has not medalled in the event since 1976. Going into the Paralympic Games, her team was ranked eighth in the world. She scored three goals.

The Belles originally failed to qualify for the 2016 Paralympic Games after finishing third at the IBSA Goalball Asia Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China. They were displaced to allow for an African team, Algeria as it turned out, to compete in goalball for the first time. But following the re-allocation of Russia's spot, the Belles found themselves getting a last-minute invite to Rio de Janeiro. They entered the tournament ranked ninth in the world. They performed better this time, fighting Uzbekistan to a draw, but they needed a win or draw in their final game against Canada to progress to the quarter finals, but lost 6–0, ending their second Paralympic campaign.