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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 July 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paratriathlon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Justin Godfrey (born 2 July 1974) is an Australian para-triathlete. He competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. [1]
Godfrey was born on 2 July 1974. [2] In his teenage years, a motorcycle accident resulted in his lower leg being severely damaged, and after many years of trying to save the leg it was amputated. [3]
Prior to concentrating on paratriathlon, he played wheelchair basketball at a national level and mountain biking. [3] In 2012, he was introduced to paratriathlon and this required him to learn to swim and run. He was classified as a PTS3 paratriathlete. He went to win to three World Para Triathlon gold medals in his classification. [3] Unfortunately, his PTS3 classification was not in the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics program. [4]
Godfrey was ranked sixth in the Men's PTS3 going into the 2024 Paris Paralympics and finished eleventh. [1] [5]
in 2024, he is a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship athlete. [2] He is a member of Beechworth Racing and coached by Adam Bechworth. [2]
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