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| Full name | Benjamin Richard Cox | ||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||
| Born | 13 December 1975 England | ||||||||||
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Benjamin Richard Cox, OAM [1] (born 13 December 1975) [2] is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was born in England. [2] He was part of the gold medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team [3] at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, [4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1]
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