 Wayne Phipps in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 25 June 1973 |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Australia |
| Sport | Judo |
Wayne Phipps (born 25 June 1973) is an Australian Paralympic judoka. He competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]
| Wayne Phipps in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 25 June 1973 |
| Sport | |
| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Judo |
Wayne Phipps (born 25 June 1973) is an Australian Paralympic judoka. He competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [1]
Phipps was born on 25 June 1973 in South Africa. [2] He moved to Australia in 2010. [1] In 2015, he was diagnosed with an eye condition. [1]
He started judo at the age of eight. [1] In his teenage years, he won national titles and in his twenties represented South Africa at world championships. [1] After his diagnosis, his coach Carlo Knoester at the Kano Judo Schools in Perth told him about Paralympic judo. [1]
He is judo classification is B3. [3] Phipps competed for the first time in Para-judo at the World Championships in Portugal in 2018. [1] At the 2021 IBSA Visually Impaired Judo in Warwick, he finished sixth in -66 kg class. [4]
Australia had not been represented in Paralympic judo since the Beijing 2008 Paralympics. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Phipps qualified in the men’s half-lightweight category Men's 66 kg. He lost to Munkhbat Aajim of Mongolia in the preliminary round. [5]
The Japanese martial art and combat sport judo has been practised in Canada for over a century. The first long-term judo dojo in Canada, Tai Iku Dojo, was established by a Japanese immigrant named Shigetaka "Steve" Sasaki in Vancouver in 1924. Sasaki and his students opened several branch schools in British Columbia and even trained RCMP officers until 1942, when Japanese Canadians were expelled from the Pacific coast and either interned or forced to move elsewhere in Canada due to fears that they were a threat to the country after Japan entered the Second World War. When the war was over, the government gave interned Japanese Canadians two options: resettle in Canada outside of the 'Japanese exclusion zone' or emigrate to Japan.
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