Vanessa Low OAM (born 17 July 1990) is a German-born Australian Paralympic athlete competing in T42 sprint and long jump events.

[2] This was repeated in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo with the T63 long jump gold medal and world record even though she was classified T61.

Two years later she was selected for the German national team, travelling to Christchurch in New Zealand to compete at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships.

While training with the Greens, Low found her passion for athletics rekindled and decided to move to the States, and took Roderick on as her new trainer.

[5] The result saw her win gold, and more importantly, beat her two major world rivals: Schmidt and Italy's Martina Caironi.

In the 100m sprint she posted a personal best of 15.41s to win the silver medal,[11] but it was her world record distance of 4.79m in the long jump that not only gave her the gold but also set her out as the athlete to beat at Rio.

[3] She won the bronze medal in the Women's Long Jump T63 at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.

[14] At the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan, Low won the gold medal in the Women's Long Jump T63.

I really love to encourage people to understand that we aren't our disabilities, but what really defines us is the choices we make, the challenges we take, the way that we put ourselves out there and bring whatever abilities that we have individually to the table.