 Wayne Phipps in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 25 June 1973 |
| Occupation | Judoka |
| 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]
