Three-time Paralympic Champion Anna Grimaldi found success in an unexpected area this year. 

The Dunedin-based athlete was New Zealand’s only gold medallist at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, claiming the gold in the T47 200m final. 

She narrowly missed medalling in the T47 women’s long jump, the event she had dominated at the last two Paralympic Games.  

Grimaldi joined Piney to reflect on her success in Paris, in an unexpected event. 

“If someone had said ‘you're coming home from Paris with the gold’, I would have said’ I would have thought it was in the long jump,” she said. 

“It wasn’t really on my radar to be winning the 200.” 

“It's been a, it’s been a crazy, like, a bit whiplash, actually, because obviously the long jump didn't go so well, and then coming away with sort of the gold but like, in a completely different event... it was, it was incredible.” 

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