Lexie Brown

After making her Australian team debut last year, Lexie Brown is selected for her second national team where she will compete in the T47 100m at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. She will be aged 15 years and 62 days at the Games, becoming the youngest track and field athlete ever to competed for Australia at Commonwealth Games.

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Lexie Brown made her global debut at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships at just 14-years-old. It was the first time she had travelled outside of Australia.

She produced personal bests of 13.59-seconds for 100m and 27.53-seconds over 200m in the leadup to New Delhi. At the championships she competed in the T47 100m and 200m heats where she recorded lifetime bests of 13.12 and 26.87. Later in the program she ran on the 4x100m Mixed relay where she won a bronze medal.

Hailing from Nambucca Heads, the lower arm amputee was encouraged to participate in multi-class sport by her primary school sports teacher Mrs Fenning and supported by her Nan, who always told her she would make it to the Paralmypics if she trained hard and kept her determination. The Gumbaynggir and Kamilaroi woman operated on a simple approach to what can be a complex pursuit.

“Keep your dreams, don’t put too much pressure on yourself and enjoy it all.”

Coached by Zenon Kowalczyk and first competing in athletics at the age of seven, the teenager also enjoys NRL but says her sporting ambition is to make it to the Paralympics one day, taking the first steps towards that goal in New Delhi in 2025.

@ 20 July 2026 david.tarbotton@athletics.org.au