Australian Paralympian and bike crash survivor Alexa Leary pulled off a super human feat on Monday evening to win the Paralympic Gold medal in the 4x100m medley relay.
Just over three years after doctors told her family she would not live after a horror accident while completing triathlon training, Alexa pulled off an epic final two laps of the mixed relay of two males and two females with varying degrees of disabilities.
The team was in fourth place after swim legs from Jessie Aungles, Timothy Hodge and Emily Beecroft, 6.28 seconds and 15 metres behind male Netherlands swimmer Thijs van Hofweegen when Alexa dived into the pool at the La Defense Arena in Paris.
In an extraordinary 100m race to the finish Alexa touched the wall first, telling people afterwards, “I’m just going to have to do it myself. We need to take the gold.”
