Michellie Jones

[6] At the 2000 Summer Olympics Jones took the silver medal in the inaugural triathlon event with a total time of 2:00:42.55, only two seconds behind gold medalist Brigitte McMahon.

[1] After recently expanding into Iron distance competition, Jones took second place in the 2005 Ironman World Championship, losing the lead during the run to Natascha Badmann.

In May 2015, it was confirmed that Jones would be Australian paratriathlete Katie Kelly's new guide in the lead up to the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

[9] At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Jones was the guide for Kelly when they won the gold medal in the Women's PT5 event.

“To me this is the best thing that I’ve ever done.”[11] Jones expresses further explaining "Disability doesn't define you, it's what you do with it that does"[12] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017.

Kelly and Jones at the 2016 Paralympics