Warren Lawton

Warren Lawton
Warren Lawton saves a penalty shot during a goalball game for Australia against Sweden at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
Personal information
Nationality  Australia
Born 23 March 1966
Augathella, Queensland
Medal record
Athletics
Paralympic Games
1984 New YorkMen's High Jump B3

Warren Lawton (born 23 March 1966) [1] is an Indigenous Australian Paralympic athletics and goalball competitor with a visual impairment.

He was born on 23 March 1966 in Aughathella, Queensland and has been visually impaired since birth.[1] At the 1984 New York Games, he competed in three athletics events and won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump B3.[2] He won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump at the 1986 World Championships for the Disabled, Gothenburg, Sweden.[1] He competed in two athletics events at the 1988 Seoul Games.[2]

He was a member of the Australian Goalball Team at the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Games.[2] He was one of the fastest goalball throwers in the world.[1] His throw has been clocked on the police radar at 80 km per hour. After the 2000 Games, he took up coaching.

In 1986 he was awarded the NAIDOC Aboriginal Sportsman of the Year and in 2001 the NAIDOC Sportsperson of the Year.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Warren Lawton". Deadly Vibe Group. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "Warren Lawton". International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "Award winners". NAIDOC Website. Retrieved 26 July 2012.



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