PKF is celebrating the historic achievement of ambassador Lauren Parker, the primary Aussie athlete to say gold in two totally different sports activities on the Paralympics since 1976.
Parker achieved the outstanding feat after dominating the ladies’s H1-4 street race to complete greater than 4 minutes forward of her rivals, the victory including to her earlier gold medal within the PTWC1 triathlon gained simply three days prior.
Hailing from Newcastle, Parker suffered a critical spinal damage in a street biking accident in 2017 which left her a paraplegic and in fixed nerve ache, however nonetheless claimed a Commonwealth Video games bronze medal the next 12 months.
The frustration of being narrowly overwhelmed into silver within the triathlon on the Tokyo Paralympics was shortly erased by her triumph at this 12 months’s occasion, which she shortly adopted up with a silver within the ladies’s H1-3 particular person time trial. A day later nevertheless, Parker etched herself within the historical past books, turning into Australia’s first single-Video games dual-sport gold medallist in virtually 5 many years.
As a long-term ambassador and common customer and speaker, Parker’s record-breaking achievement prompted cheers from PKF’s Sydney & Newcastle workplace, with non-executive director Kylee Dare neatly summing up the sentiment; “She is fierce, robust and extremely focussed. She has grit, dedication and resilience. As we speak she gained GOLD, and we’re so very proud.”
“What Lauren has achieved in a two-year interval since her accident is phenomenal,” Dare mentioned upon Parker signing on in 2019. “Simply the method of reconciling and discovering some acceptance of her incapacity statistically takes for much longer than that. Her resilience and power is inspiring, and I’m proud to be part of an organisation that values inclusion and places these values into motion.”
The accounting and consulting agency’s emblem options on Parker’s common competitors prime as a part of their partnership settlement, but Parker herself describes the association as rather more than a enterprise deal, stating beforehand; “It’s a real relationship, and I’m so grateful. I positively wouldn’t be capable of do what I’m doing with out the help from everybody at PKF.”
Parker’s multi-sport conquest – the primary for an Australian athlete since Eric Russell on the 1976 Toronto Video games – wasn’t PKF’s solely trigger for celebration at this 12 months’s occasion in Paris, with the agency additionally backing a number of members of Australia’s profitable water polo groups. Moreover, PKF shall be cheering on Newcastle on this 12 months’s NRL finals after the Knights snuck into eighth spot within the last sport of the season.
