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Stephen Muir is an Australian Paralympic amputee athletics competitor from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. [1]
He was born without any hands. [2] At the 1984 New York Games, he won a silver medal in the Men's Triple Jump A5. [3]
He supported his athletics career by operating a lawn mowing business. [2] In 2005, he worked as a traffic controller and a groundsman. [2] In 2005, he was awarded a certificate for fifteen years service to Queensland State Emergency Service. [2]
The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. After opening with 524 students in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College, it was later renamed the University of the Sunshine Coast in 1999.
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