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Nationality | Australia |
Born | 26 January 1971 Sydney, New South Wales |
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Brett Boylan (born 26 January 1971) [1] is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales. [1] He participated in the Australian Stealers at the 1996, 2000 Sydney, and 2004 Athens Paralympics, winning a silver medal with the team in 2000. [2]
The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics were organized by two different Organizing Committees. In this edition, a record 3,801 athletes from 120 National Paralympic Committees participated in 551 events in 18 sports, and until the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, it was the second largest sporting event ever until that date held in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere. Sydney was the eighth city to host the Olympics and the Paralympics on same venues at the same year, and the first since Barcelona 1992 that they were organized in complete conjunction with the Olympics. They were also the first Paralympic Games outside the Northern Hemisphere and also in Oceania.
George Hucks is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. Born in the South Australian town of Port Augusta, he took up wheelchair rugby in 1994 and began playing for the Australian Steelers in 1995. During a practice in Atlanta before the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Hucks, the team's best player, broke his kneecap. He was part of the national team at the 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, and 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and won silver medals at the 2000 and 2008 games with the team. He works as a funds officer.
There were 5 male athletes representing Iraq at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia.
Leroi Court was an Australian Paralympic competitor. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales. He won a bronze medal in the men's athletics 100 metres T12 event the 1996 Summer Paralympics with a time of 0:11.48.
Lachlan Stuart Jones, OAM is a former Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne, and has cerebral palsy. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m T32 event with a world record time of 0:19.90, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He also participated without winning any medals at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Games. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.
Richard Nicholson is an Australian Paralympic powerlifter and athlete. He has competed at five successive Paralympic Games from the 1996 to 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2000 Games, he won a silver medal in the powerlifting Men's Up to 60 kg event. In athletics, at the 2004 Athens Paralympics he won a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m T53–54 event and at the 2012 London Paralympics a bronze medal in the Men's 4 × 400 m T53–54 event.
Murray Goldfinch is a Paralympic athletics competitor with an intellectual disability from Canberra, Australia. He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's shot put F20 event. In 2001, he held an Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship.
Darren Harry, OAM is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's tandem sprint open event with Paul Clohessy, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
Bryce Alman is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He was part of the Australian Steelers at the 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and won two silver medals with the team in 2000 and 2008.
Craig Parsons is a Paralympic table tennis and wheelchair rugby union player from Australia. He was born in Subiaco, Western Australia. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He participated in table tennis at the 1988 Seoul Games.
Peter Harding is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He was born in Mildura, Victoria. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games with the Australian Steelers.
Clifford Clarke is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player from Australia. He was born in Carlton, Victoria. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games with the Australian Steelers.
Brad Dubberley is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby Head Coach and former athlete. He won a silver medal as an athlete at the 2000 Sydney Games and as the head coach at the 2008 Beijing Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He is the head coach of the Australian Wheelchair Rugby team known as the Australian Steelers.
Tom Kennedy is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He was born in Wauchope, New South Wales.
Steve Porter is a Paralympic wheelchair rugby union player from Australia. He was born in Denmark, South Australia. He won silver medals at the 2000 Sydney Games and 2008 Beijing Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event.
Patrick Ryan is a Paralympic wheelchair rugby union player from Australia. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event.
Patrick Donachie, OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.
Lucy Williams is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales. She won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB6 event.
For the American fashion model, see Stacey Williams.
Brendan Keogh in Penrith, New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic swimming coach who has over 20 years of swimming coaching experience. He has been an Australian coach at five successive Summer Paralympic Games - 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.