Alissa Jordaan
Alissa Jordaan (30 June 2003) is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She represented Ausralia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Athletics. She is classified as a T47 athlete. She was a member of Northern Suburbs Little Athletics Club in Sydney. At the 2017 World Junior Para-Athletics World Championships in Nottwil, Switzerland, she won the gold medal in Long Jump U18 T42-47, and silver medals in the 100m and 200m (U18 T42-47). In November 2020, Jordaan became the first Australian female T46/47 sprinter to run the 400m in under 60 seconds, clocking a time of  59.69" at the Australian Institute of Sport. In 2019, she was one of five Australian Para-athletes from New South Wales to be the first recipients of the Kurt Fearnley Scholarship. She then competed in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where she came 7th in the 400m T47 and 10th ranked in the 100m T47 . In 2021, she is coached in Canberra by Sebastian Kuzminski.