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Michael Roeger
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Michael Roeger

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Michael Roeger
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2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Roeger
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born (1988-05-14) 14 May 1988
Adelaide, South Australia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Paralympic athletics
Medal record
Track and field (athletics) T46
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Men's 1500m – T46
World Para Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 London Men's Marathon – T46
Silver medal – second place 2019 Dubai Men's 1500m – T46
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Lyon Men's 1500m – T46
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Lyon Men's 5000m – T46
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Doha Men's 1500m – T46

Michael Roeger (born 14 May 1988) is an Australian T46 athletics competitor. He competed at the 2008, 2012, and 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics athletics in middle distance and marathon running events. He has won one gold and three bronze medals at the IPC Athletics World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. His gold in the Men's T46 marathon at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships was held as part of the London Marathon, set a new world record.

Roeger competed at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

Personal

Roeger was born on 14 May 1988, and is from Langhorne Creek , South Australia. He has a twin brother Chris. He is missing the lower half of his right arm. He played junior football at the Langhorne Creek Football Club. Growing up, he played basketball, table tennis and cricket. He moved away from there and to Canberra in 2009. In 2012, he was a student at the University of Canberra working on a Bachelor of Communications in Advertising and Marketing.

Athletics

Roeger is a T46 classified athlete, competing in 800 metres,1,500 metres and 5,000 metre events. He is a member of the Adelaide area Hills District Athletic Club. In 2008, when in Adelaide, he trained with Pete Davis and Marc Fairhead. He has held an athletics scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport. He started competing in athletics in 1999 when he competed for his high school's cross country team.

At the 2008 Victorian Country Championships, Roeger set a Paralympic A qualifying time of 4:02.04 in the 1500 metres. At the time, this was the second best time ever set in the world. He also set qualifying times in the 800 metres and 5,000 metres. As a twenty-year-old, he represented Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. He did not earn a medal at the Games. He set a personal best time in the 1,500 metre event, finishing in eighth place, and came 11th place in the final of the 5,000 metres. He did not make the finals in the 800 metre event. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics in the 800 metres event. His Paralympic training included five gym sessions a week with a focus on leg strength. He competed in the Men's 800 m T46 at the 2012 London and but did not medal.

Roeger at the 2012 London Paralympics

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, he won bronze medals in the Men's 1500m and Men's 5000m T46 events.

In 2014, Roeger ran almost a five-second 1500 m personal best (3 minutes 51.08 seconds) on 20 March 2014 at the Victorian Milers Club. His time qualified him for the 2014 Australian Athletics Championships. His time was just short of the world record, 3:50.2 and the second best time in his class. At the Australian Championships, he took on his coach Philo Saunders, who is a physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport. Also in 2014, he was part of the Australian Sports Commission team that represented Australia at the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge in London, England.

Roeger at the 2012 London Paralympics

During the Athletics Australia 2014/15 season, he reduced his personal best for the 1500m to 3:50.61. He qualified for the Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane, Queensland Open 1500m and ran in the heats.

In June 2015 in Boston, United States, Roeger ran 3:48.55 to break the Men's 1500 m T46 world record but it was not ratified as no drug test was available.

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, he won the bronze medal in the Men's 1500 m T46. After the event, Roeger said "A bronze medal is a bronze medal, I wanted more from myself today but the legs weren't there in the last lap. It's a stepping stone for Rio. This makes me so hungry for gold. It's my dream and it’s been my dream for a long time. It's about taking the positives away from this and building on them for next year".

On 12 June 2016, Roeger ran 3:49.08 in the Men's 1500m at the Portland Track Festival to break the Men's 1500m T46 world record. The record was not ratified even though drug testing was undertaken.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the bronze medal in the Men's 1500 m T46.

Australian athletes Michael Roeger (left) and Jaryd Clifford after the medal presentations for the marathon at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

On 4 February 2017 at the inaugural Sydney Invitational, Roeger smashed the T46 1500m world record of 3:50.15 by running 3:46.51. Roeger had previously beaten the world record time but previous times were in unsanctioned events.

Roeger was selected to compete at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, England but withdrew just prior to the competition due to injury.

On 14 October 2018, in his debut marathon, he finished sixth in the Melbourne Marathon. His time 2:23.31 broke the previous world record of 2:26.44 but it was not ratified. After the race Roeger said "I’m over the moon to get the world record and finish on the MCG. It has been 10 years of work really, it is the third world record in the year, it is a pretty special feeling."

At the 2019 London Marathon which was also the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships marathon event, he won the Men's T46 in world record time of 2:22:51 breaking the ratified world record of 2:26.44. After originally being disqualified, he was awarded the silver medal in the Men's 1500 m at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. His time was 3m:51.99.

Roeger finished 6th in the Men's Marathon T46 at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, his fourth Paralympics. Roeger went into the event as favourite but a stress fracture in his leg in the month leading up to the Games led to a compromised, preparation and training load coming into Tokyo.

In 2018, he has a scholarship with the South Australian Institute of Sport and trains at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Roeger competed in the Marathon T46 where he finished sixth.

1500m progression

Distance Time /
Distance
Location Date
1500m 3:51.08 Melbourne 20 March 2014
1500m 3:50.61 Sydney 19 March 2015
1500m 3:48.55 Boston June 2015
1500m 3:49.08 Portland 12 June 2016
1500m 3:46.51
Ratified World Record
Sydney 4 February 2017
1500m 3:45.63 Sydney 17 March 2018

5000m progression

Distance Time /
Distance
Location Date
5000m 14:14.91
WR
Canberra 11 March 2016
5000m 14:06.56
WR
Gold Coast, Queensland 15 February 2018
5000m 14.00.25 WR
Sydney 13 March 2021

10000m progression

Distance Time /
Distance
Location Date
10000m 29:24.19
WR
Melbourne 13 December 2018

Marathon progression

Distance Time /
Distance
Location Date
Marathon 2:23.31
Melbourne 14 October 2018
Marathon 2:22:51 WR London 28 April 2019
Marathon 2:19.33 WR Houston 19 January 2020
Marathon 2:18:53 WR Sydney 25 April 2021

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