Madison de Rozario OAM (athletics) became the first Para track and field athlete from any nation to win four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games after back-to-back victories in the women’s marathon T54 and 1500m T54 at the Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Madison developed transverse myelitis – a neurological disease which inflames the spinal cord – when she was four. She began wheelchair racing in 2006 at the age of 12 and just two years later made her Paralympic debut in Beijing. She had broken world records, won world championship gold and three Paralympic silver medals before finally breaking through for Paralympic gold in the 800m T54 at her fourth Games in Tokyo in 2021, doubling down with victory in the T54 marathon just days later. After the race, she paid credit to her long-time coach Louise Sauvage, saying: “She’s the most amazing person to have in my corner.”

At her fifth Paralympics in Paris in 2024, Madison won bronze in the 5000m T54 and silver in the marathon T54 on the final day of competition. Afterwards, she revealed her father had passed away just hours before she led the team at the opening ceremony as flagbearer alongside Brenden Hall 11 days earlier.

Rozario was also the first Australian to win the elite women’s wheelchair race at the London (2018) and New York (2021) marathons, has equalled the world record in the 1500m T53-54 and won Australia’s premier elite women’s wheelchair race – the Oz Day 10K in Sydney – for a record-equalling 11th time in 2025.

Madison is an outspoken advocate for people with disabilities and even had a Barbie doll made in her likeness in 2020.