 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Carr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 13 August 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 2.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cameron Carr, OAM is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He has won a silver medal at the 2008 Paralympics and gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics. [1]
Cameron Michael Carr was born on 13 August 1977, and lives in Brisbane, Queensland. [2] [3] His father is Norm Carr, Queensland rugby league State of Origin representative. [4] At 19 years old, Carr just signed a contract with the Sydney Roosters. The weekend before moving to Sydney, Carr was involved in a motor vehicle collision when a friend driving him home from a 21st birthday fell asleep at the wheel. His neck was broken as a result of the crash. [5]
He first competed in wheelchair rugby in 2003 and was selected for Australia in 2005. [4] [5] He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics. [6] He was a member of the Steelers team that won silver medal at the 2010 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Vancouver and a gold medal at the 2014 World Championships in Odense, [7] and the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final. [8]
Carr was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games." [3]
Carr is married with three children; one son and two twin daughters. [9]
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