Karni Liddell (born 1 March 1979) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia.

Personal

Liddell was born on 1 March 1979 in

Rockhampton Rockhampton is a city in the Rockhampton Region of Central Queensland, Australia. In the , the population of Rockhampton was 79,293. A common nickname for Rockhampton is "Rocky", and the demonym of Rockhampton is Rockhamptonite. The Scottish- ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

. Information on past Australian Paralympic Games results and profiles on Australian athletes and staff attending the Sydney Paralympic Games. She is a radio presenter for

4BC 4BC is a radio station in Brisbane, Queensland, owned by Nine Entertainment. It broadcasts on 882 kHz AM and is Brisbane's only commercial talkback station. While the station's broadcasting facility is at Cannon Hill, its transmitting towe ...

. At twelve months old, Liddell was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy a rare neuromuscular wasting disease. Karni was misdiagnosed for 40 years and has recently been diagnosed with Congenital Titinopathy which is also a neuromuscular wasting disease. Karni was diagnosed via a whole genome sequencing test performed in Europe in 2019 and Karni and her family had been looking for a diagnosis for the past 12 years and this has been a lengthy, traumatic and expensive process for her family. Her parents were told by doctors that she would never be able to walk and that she would not live past her teens. Liddell, alongside

Branka Pupovac Branka Pupovac (born 3 March 1972) is a Paralympic wheelchair tennis competitor from Australia. Personal Pupovac was born on 3 March 1972 in Wollongong, New South Wales. She is from Sydney, New South Wales and attended the University of Wollon ...

, Hamish MacDonald and Charmaine Dalli, was one of eighteen Australian Paralympians photographed by

Emma Hack Emma Hack (born 1972) is an Australian visual artist known for her photographs of painted bare human bodies that visually merge with a patterned background wall, producing a chameleon-like camouflage effect. Her technique was developed in the ear ...

for a nude calendar. Liddell's photography depicts her wearing sunglasses and a covered in body paint made to look like a polka-dotted bikini. In 2008, she was one of several Queenslanders to have their images painted by Ludmila Clark to have the picture go on display at the Customs House in Rockhampton.

Swimming

By the age of 14, Liddell had broken a swimming world record. She has competed at two Paralympic Games: 1996 and 2000. She won medals at both Games and was the Australian Swimming Team Captain at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

References

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