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Full name | Brian Harry Harvey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 3 October 1965 57) Rockhampton, Australia | (age|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brian Harry Harvey, OAM [1] (born 3 October 1965) [2] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in the Queensland city of Rockhampton, and has cerebral palsy. [2] At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Javelin F34/37 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1] [3] He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Men's Discus Throw F38 event. [3] That year, he received an Australian Sports Medal. [4] He participated in the 2004 Athens Games, but did not win any medals at that competition. [3]
Stephen Robert Eaton, OAM is an Australian athlete with cerebral palsy from Toowoomba, Queensland who competes at the national and international level in discus throwing and shot put at events such as the Paralympic Games and IPC Athletics World Championships.
Christopher Ian Scott, OAM is a former Australian Paralympic cyclist. He has won ten medals at six Games from 1988 to 2008.
Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts, OAM is a visually impaired Australian Paralympic athlete and goalballer.
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.
John Lindsay, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete from Melbourne. He competed in the 1988 Seoul games in distances ranging from 100 m to 800 m, but did not win any medals. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 200 m TW3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Men's 100 m TW3 event and a bronze medal in the Men's 400 m TW3 event. That year, he had a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship. He was also working as a fitness instructor in 1992, held world records in the 100 m and 200 m events, and was ranked 6th in the world in the 400 m. He won a gold medal in the men's athletics 100 m T52 event at the 1996 Summer Paralympics with a time of 15.22, a silver medal in the 200 m T52 event with a time of 27.38, and a bronze medal in the 400 m T52 event with a time of 52.93. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m T53 event, a silver medal as part of the Men's 4x100 m Relay T54 team, and a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m T53 event; he was also part of the Men's 4x400 m Relay T54 team, which was the only one to qualify in its heat, but it did not make it to the finals. At the 2004 Athens Games, he came seventh in the first round of the Men's 100 m T53 event and sixth in the third round of the Men's 200 m T53 event. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1995 and 2000.
Darren Brian Thrupp, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category T37 sprint events. He has won nine medals at six Paralympics.
Troy Kenneth Andrews, OAM(born 1 December 1961) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and shooter, who has represented Australia at five Paralympics from 1984 to 2000. He was born in the New South Wales city of Broken Hill. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, he came fourth in the Men's Air Pistol 2-6 - event. He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Games. He won a gold medal as part of the winning Australian team in 1996, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.
Paul Damian Cross, OAM is an Australian swimmer with an intellectual disability. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in two events. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he competed in eight events and won a gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 swimming event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. In 1999, he was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship holder.
Adrian Paul Grogan, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta, and has cerebral palsy. He won two bronze medals in the 200 m and 400 m events at the 1994 FESPIC Games in Beijing. He participated but did not win any medals at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Men's 4x100 m Relay T38 and Men's 4x400 m Relay T38 events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
Timothy "Tim" Shaun Matthews, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in the Victorian town of Orbost with exomphalos, a condition in which the abdomen develops outside the body; in his case, the condition affected other organs, including his liver. he was also born without a left arm and with some webbed fingers. He spent much of his early life at Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital because the membrane protecting his exposed organs ruptured when he was two days old.
Alison Clare Quinn, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete who won five medals at three Paralympics from 1992 to 2000.
Russell Luke Short, OAM is an Australian legally blind athlete, who has competed at eight Paralympics from 1988 to 2016 and won six gold, two silver and four bronze medals at the Games. He competes in discus, javelin, and shot put.
Gregory Stephen Smith, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair rugby player who won three gold medals in athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and a gold medal in wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where he was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Bruce Wallrodt, was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He competed at five Paralympic Games and won nine medals, four of them gold.
Paul Clohessy, OAM is an Australian vision impaired tandem cyclist. He was born in Perth, Western Australia. He represented Australia at the three Paralympic Games - 1992, 1996 and 2000. He was also an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1997 and 2000 in cycling.
Damien Alexander Burroughs, is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games and participated in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics.
Hamish Anderson MacDonald, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne and lives in Canberra. He has cerebral palsy. His achievements and advocacy have made him one of Australia's most respected Paralympians.
Peter David Homann, OAM is a former Australian Paralympic cyclist. He has won seven medals at three Games from 1996 to 2004.
Brian Frederick McNicholl, OAM is a New Zealand-born Australian Paralympic powerlifter, weightlifter, wheelchair basketballer, and athlete, who won five medals at six Paralympic games from 1976 to 1996.
Anthony John Biddle is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist and athlete. He was born in the New South Wales city of Gosford. He competed in athletics without winning any medals at the 1996 Atlanta Games and the 2000 Sydney Games. At the 2004 Athens Games, he switched to cycling and won a gold medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Tandem B1–3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's Sprint Tandem B1–3 event. Kial Stewart was his pilot for both events.