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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 March 1982 Brisbane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability class | 0.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ryan Scott, OAM (born 3 March 1982) [1] is a Paralympic wheelchair rugby competitor from Australia. In four Paralympics, Scott has won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympics. [2]
Scott was born on 3 March 1982. On 6 June 1998 as a 16-year-old, he became a quadriplegic due to a car crash on a country road en route to Victor Harbor, South Australia. [3] [1] [4] At the time of the accident, he was a year 11 student at Willunga High School. [3] The accident left Scott paralysed from his chest down but he has some movement in his shoulders, back, biceps and forearms. [3] He moved to Brisbane from Adelaide in 2009 due to the warm weather and due to Queensland having a good wheelchair rugby program. [5]
Scott took up wheelchair rugby as part of his rehabilitation. Scott said "I always loved sport and participated in all kinds of sport – soccer, basketball, Aussie rules, pretty much every sport except able-bodied rugby. As a quadriplegic, I didn’t have the upper-body strength to play wheelchair basketball. When I saw wheelchair rugby, that’s when I thought that sport was still possible." [3] Scott made his debut for the Australian team 'Steelers' in August 2001. [4] He was a member of the Steelers that came fifth at the 2004 Athens Paralympics. [4] He won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. [6] He won a gold medal at the 2012 London Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. [6]
He was a member of the Steelers that finished with the silver medal at the 2010 World Championships and gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark. [7]
Scott captained the Australian 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 World Championships in Sydney, 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]
During his career he was co-captain and captain of the Steelers (2012–2016) [4] and played for the Suncorp Queensland Cyclones in the Wheelchair Rugby National League. [10]
Scott said "because of wheelchair rugby I’ve been able to travel the world playing a team sport, I have represented my county at three Paralympic Games, which is huge. It has also made me a much more independent person." [5]
In September 2018, after 288 Steelers games, he announced his retirement from international wheelchair rugby. [11]
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