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Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 October 1965 59) Southport, Queensland, Australia | (age||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Gockel (born 10 October 1965) [1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer.
He was born in Southport, Queensland. [1] He has spina bifida with partial paralysis below the waist. [2] He attended Marist College Ashgrove. [3]
He took up swimming seriously in his twenties. He participated in four events in swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Games. [4] He won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Men's 4x100 m Freestyle S7–10 event and swam in three individual events. [4]
He met his wife Kerry-Lee, known as the Wingless Warrior, through swimming and both compete in open water swimming events. [5] [6]