They both lost limbs through tragic accidents – now, former gold-medal sprinter Scott Reardon coaches his fellow Paralympian wife, long-jumper Vanessa Low.
German-born Vanessa Low, 33, will compete for Australia in the long jump at the Paralympic Games in Paris. Her husband and coach, Scott Reardon, 34, a former Paralympic gold-medal sprinter, will be there with their two-year-old son, Matteo.
After London, we stayed in touch. Vanessa had just moved from Germany to the US to train and I was living in Canberra. A lot of FaceTime calls. Things kind of blossomed when we both competed in Germany in 2014. Two years later, Vanessa came to Australia and she’s been here ever since. We went from a long-distance relationship to living together, training together, doing everything together. We had a common goal – to be the best in the world – and we supported each other as much as we could.
We both had our accidents early in life – I was 15 when I fell from a railway platform into the path of a train and lost both my legs – and as a result, we both grew up really quickly. Sometimes we found it quite hard to connect with people our age. On the plus side, experiencing that hardship early probably brought out aspects of our characters that we otherwise wouldn’t have discovered until later in our lives, qualities that made us the athletes we are.
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