Telaya Blacksmith

Telaya Blacksmith (born 3 December 2007) is a Warlpiri Australian Paralympic athletics competitor with a Neurological Disorder. She competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics and became Australia's 16th Indigenous Australian Paralympian.

Personal Blacksmith was born in Perth and raised in the Aboriginal community of Lajamanu in the Northern Territory and she is the first Warlpiri athlete to compete at the Paralympic Games.

Athletics She is classified as a T20 athlete. Cathy Freeman was her idol growing up. In the Women's Long Jump T20, she finished ninth. At the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, she finished eighth in the Women's 400 T20 and tenth in Women's Long Jump T20.

She is coached by Jacinta Doyle in the Sutherland Shire, Sydney Australia 2024 - National Junior Sportsperson of the Year National Indigenous Sporting Awards.