Jason Lees
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 2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Lees | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1 March 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | ||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 1.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Jason Lees, OAM is from Victoria. In 2002, Lees started playing wheelchair rugby on the social, non-competitive level. In 2009, he made his debut for the Queensland state team and the Australian Steelers. He competed in the 2010 World Rugby Wheelchair Championships, where his team captured a silver medal.[1]
Lees was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[2]
References
- ↑ Australian Athletes with a Disability. "Jason Lees (VIC)".
- ↑ "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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