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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 April 1965 Seymour, Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roy Daniell (born 11 April 1965) is an Australian runner with a vision impairment, who has won two medals at three Paralympics.
Daniell was born on 11 April 1965 in the Victorian town of Seymour and lives in Canberra. [1] [2] He has a genetic condition that causes peripheral vision. Everything in his direct line of sight is permanently blocked by a fuzzy test pattern. [1] [3] He began losing his sight at the age of ten and by the age of fifteen, he effectively could not read. [3] He attended Canberra Grammar School where he was a competitive sprinter and he participated in rowing at national schoolboy competitions. [3]
He is a physiotherapist in Canberra and has a post graduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy and a master's degree in Pain Management. [4] He is married and has two sons. [4]
Daniell did not think of himself as disabled until he heard that Sydney was hosting the Paralympics; he began training in 1997 after his eye doctor confirmed that he would be able to qualify for the games. [5] He was originally a triathlete but switched to running after colliding with parked cars and swimming poorly. [4] He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Men's Marathon T13 event. [6] He had an Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship from 2001 to 2002. [7] At the 2004 Athens Games he won a silver medal in the men's marathon T13 event. [6] In Sydney and Athens he ran without a race guide. He finished 13th in the men's marathon T12 at the 2008 Beijing Games with race guides Julien Wicks and Dennis Fitzgerald. [6] [8] [9] [10] He retired from competition after the 2008 games to spend more time with his family. [11]
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