The Gold Coast athletics talent taking on the world

From tackling the world’s steepest rollercoaster to riding emotional ones, this jetsetting athlete is loving her new life in the fast lane.

FROM tackling the world’s steepest rollercoaster to riding emotional ones, jetsetting Ellie Beer is loving her new life in the fast lane.

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The 16-year-old this month capped her remarkable 2019 by taking out the Queensland Junior Athlete of the Year award, weeks after taking the Bulletin’s Local Sports Star regional title.

The rise of the athletics whiz has been so rapid that the Marymount College student is now eyeing next year’s Olympic Games, among other things.

Gold Coast athlete Ellie Beer with Katie Hayward and Yohan Blake. Picture: SUPPLIED

The youngest ever Aussie female to compete (16 years and 268 days), Beer helped the national women’s 4x400m relay team claim fifth at the IAAF world athletics championships in Doha earlier this month.

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“The main goal is to try and get an individual spot at the Olympics next year but if not there is plenty of time,” said Beer, who trains under sprint guru Brett Robinson at Viking Athletics.

“One of the other goals is to keep positive and keep training hard; I have a very good training squad.

Gold Coast athlete Ellie Beer (right). Picture: SUPPLIED

“I just got back into training and it was a very hard week.

“Enjoying it is the main thing and I’m enjoying every aspect of it at the moment.”

On and off the athletics track.

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She rubbed shoulders with Jamaican sprint star Yohan Blake in Doha and is quickly accruing a lifetime of memories from her jetsetting ways.

Gold Coast athlete Ellie Beer on tour in Doha. Picture: SUPPLIED

Beer’s venture to the IAAF world relay championships in May coincided with thrills on Takabisha, the famed Japanese rollercoaster known as one of the scariest in the world.

“I went to Japan this year and we rode the steepest rollercoaster in the world, I rode a camel as well; the things you do when you go away,” she said.

Takabisha rollercoaster in Japan. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO

“I met some lifelong friends and some amazing people.”

Kenya, the base for the world under-20 athletics championships next year, could be next stamp on the passport.

“I haven’t been on a junior world team yet so it would be a great privilege,” said Beer, whose shock Brisbane Track Classic victory earlier this year shot her on to the national stage.