newy.com.au – Newcastle para-athlete Aimee Fisher will make her Australian team debut in the women’s 400m T54 wheelchair race at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Friday.
The 25-year-old sonographer earned her first opportunity to wear the green and gold after years of balancing international sporting ambitions with a career in medical imaging.
Fisher’s wheelchair racing journey began after a fall at 16 caused a spinal cord injury that left her paralysed from the hips down. Six weeks later, she climbed into a racing chair alongside Jessica Frotten and Kurt Fearnley and met Louise Savage OAM, who is now her coach.
Fisher was working a shift at Hunter Imaging when the email confirming her selection arrived.
“I just cried. I cried because I was so excited,” she told the NSW Institute of Sport.
“I am extremely honoured to have earned the privilege to wear the green and gold for Australia for the first time and am very excited about competing and the experience.”
Fisher composed herself when her next patient arrived and returned to work, continuing the medical imaging career she had aspired to alongside her sporting ambitions.
“Sport has always been a big part of my life, and as a young girl I always had two dreams – to wear the green and gold and pursue a career in medical imaging. It’s very special to be able to see both of those dreams through,” Fisher told CQUniversity earlier this year.
Her family and friends will watch from the stands in Glasgow, while colleagues in Newcastle have organised a viewing party.
Hunter Imaging ultrasound senior manager Sophie O’Brien said Fisher brought the same commitment to her work as a sonographer that she showed on the track.
“We are incredibly proud of Aimee. She demonstrates such determination and passion in everything she does, whether it’s on the track or performing scans for patients here at work,” Ms O’Brien said.
“We have organised a watch party so that we can all come together to cheer her on. We are all so excited to see her achieve her dreams and compete at the Commonwealth Games.”
