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| Full name | Tige Arthur Simmons | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 May 1977 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Rachel Simmons | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tige Arthur Simmons, OAM [1] (born 5 May 1977) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who represented Australia in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games.
Tige Simmons became a paraplegic due to a motorbike accident. [2] He was part of the gold medal-winning Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team [3] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, [4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1]
He was a member of the Australian Men's National Wheelchair Basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship [5] [6] that won a gold medal. [7]
He plays as a guard and is classified as a 1.0 player. [5]
In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Brisbane Spinning Bullets. [8]
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver. [9] In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro [10] where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth. [11]
