Louzanne Coetzee doesn’t need to see the track to dominate it.
The Paralympic athlete is breaking records despite only beginning her running career seven years ago at university.
In 2016, she accomplished the unthinkable. Coetzee broke the world record in the T11 category for the 5 000m. “To run without being able to see feels normal to me,” she says. Her partner Xavier Adams guides her direction.
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