 Paul Mitchell competing at the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Paul Graham Frederick Mitchell | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 October 1970 England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paul Graham Frederick Mitchell, OAM [1] (born 24 October 1970 in England) [2] is a Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability from Western Australia, Australia.
At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain, he won a silver medal in the Men's 1500 m. Competing at the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships, he won a gold medal in the Men's 800 m T20. [3] At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships, he competed in two events winning a silver medal in the Men's 5000m T20 and twelfth in the Men's 1500 m T20. [3]
He won a gold medal, with a personal best, at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's 1500m T20 event, [4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1] In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. [5] In 2000, he was a carpenter. [2]
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