Cameron Crombie

Cameron Crombie
Personal information
Full name Cameron Crombie
Nationality Australia
Born (1986-02-14) 14 February 1986
Newcastle, New South Wales
Sport
Country Australia
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Shot Put, Javelin
Coached by Hamish MacDonald
Medal record
Track and field
World Para Athletics Championships
2017 London Shot put F38
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastShot put F38

Cameron Crombie (born 14 February 1986) is an Australian Para-Athlete who specialises in the shot put and javelin throw events. At his first major international competition, he won the gold medal in the Men's Shot Put F38 classification at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London. England.

Personal

Crombie is the eldest of twin boys and was born on 14 February 1986 in Newcastle, New South Wales. He has hemiplegia (left side) because of a stroke during premature birth.[1][1] Crombie has finished a Bachelor of Economics at University of Newcastle. He lives in Canberra where he is a licensed real estate agent and a has been a volunteer firefighter with the Molonglo Brigade of the ACT Rural Fire Service since 2013.

Athletics

Prior to taking up athletics, Crombie was involved with basketball from a young age and came up through the Junior representative levels with the Newcastle Hunters and eventually went on to play at a state level as a 16 year old.[1] In 2015, Crombie became a National para-rowing champion by winning the men's single scull, mixed double scull (with Kathleen Murdoch) and the mixed coxed four in the LTA category, and was provisionally selected to represent Australia in the 2015 World Rowing Championships, but classification complications meant he did not compete.[2][3][1]

In 2015 he transferred to para-athletics where he was immediately classified as F38. He is coached by Paralympic gold medallist Hamish MacDonald [1] and continues to train in Canberra.

In his first major international para-athletics competition, he won the gold medal in the F38 Men's Shot Put with a world record throw of 15.95 m to smash the previous record mark by 37 cm.[4] He also competed in the F38 Men's Javelin Throw, where he finished in 5th place with a throw that increased his personal best by over 3.5m.

Recognition

At the 2017 ACT Sport Awards, he won the People's Sporting Champion award.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Cameron Crombie". Athletics Australia website. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "2015 Rowing Team Announced". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 Aug 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cameron Crombie finally represents Australia at world para-athletics championships". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 Aug 2017.
  4. ↑ "Cameron Crombie wins title at world para-athletics". Sydney Morning Herald. 15 July 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  5. ↑ Dutton, Chris (1 December 2017). "Caroline Buchanan, Michael Matthews, Schoolboy rugby big winners at ACT sport awards". Canberra Times. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
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