 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National team | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 May 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 3.0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jayden Warn OAM (born 23 May 1994) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers and competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1] [2]
Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria. [3] At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries. [4] He shattered six vertebrates in his neck and back. [4] He attended Warragul Regional College. [5]
He made his debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.
He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark. [6] [7]
Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final. [8]
At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, Australia, he was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal after being defeated by Japan 61–62 in the gold medal game. [9]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, the Steelers finished fourth after being defeated by Japan 52–60 in the bronze medal game.COVID travel restrictions led to Steelers not having a team training since March 2020 prior to Tokyo. [10]
He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017. [11]
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