Jessica Gallagher creates Australian Paralympic history as first Summer and Winter medallist

IT took just a little over a minute for Jessica Gallagher to create history in Rio. To be exact, 1:08.171. And it has won her SWOOP Play of the Weekend.

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It took just a little over a minute for Jessica Gallagher to create history in Rio.

To be exact, 1:08.171.

That was the time the vision-impaired Gallagher rode with pilot Madison Janssen to claim bronze in the tandem kilometre time trial at the Paralympics,

It saw her become the first Australian to medal at both a Winter and a Summer Paralympic Games.

Jessica Gallagher and pilot Madison Janssen in action in Rio.

It has also earned her Swoop Play of the Weekend.

Gallagher now joins the likes of netballers Caitlin Bassett and Madi Robinson, new WBBL cricketer Renee Straumietis, Matildas captain Lisa De Vanna, Opals and WNBA star Penny Taylor, paddler Jessica Fox, Olympic track cyclist Anna Meares and equestrian Edwina Tops-Alexander as a winner of a Swoop Play of the Day, Play of the Week or Play of the Weekend.

Australia's Jessica Gallagher with guide Eric Bickerton after winning bronze at the Winter Olympics.

The multi-talented Gallagher was Australia’s first female Winter Paralympic medallist with her bronze in the giant slalom in Vancouver in 2010.

On the weekend she became the first male or female to win medals at both Summer and Winter events.

A former netballer who was talent identified for skiing, the 29-year-old has also competed in athletics at the Paralympics but missed a medal in London due to injury.

She missed the Beijing Paralympics when declared not vision-impaired enough to compete.

Originally published as Jessica Gallagher creates Australian Paralympic history as first Summer and Winter medallist