Simon Patmore
 2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Patmore | ||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australia | |||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1987 | |||||||||
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||
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Simon Patmore (born 29 August 1987) is an Australian athletics competitor. He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games where he earned a gold medal. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics.
Personal
Patmore was born on 29 August 1987,[1] and is from the Brisbane area[2][3] suburb of Carseldine[3][4] in Queensland.[5] As of 2012, he works as a public servant, working for Queensland Health as a technology officer.[6] Simon was born with Erb's palsy, having nerve damage in his left arm.
Athletics
Patmore is a T46 classified competitor.[3][7][8][9][10] He took up running in 2009.[6] As of April 2011, as a 23 year old, he had a personal best time in the 100 metre race of 11.14 seconds.[8] One of his Australian rivals is Gabriel Cole.[11]
Patmore competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He finished first in the T46 men's 100 metre event with a time of 11.14 seconds.[6][7][8][12][13][14][15][16] In April 2011, he participated in the Stawell Gift in the 120 metre race,[8][17] starting at the 8 metre mark.[15] At the January 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a time of 22.43 seconds, he finished third in the 200 metre race.[18][19] At the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships, he finished first in the 200 metre final.[20] He competed at the 2012 Brisbane Track Classic,[3] where he set a Paralympic qualifying time in the 100 metre event.[10] His performance increased his rank to fourth in the world.[10] He competed in the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships,[9] where he won the men's 400 metre event with a time of 51.05 seconds.[9] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics.[1][5][21][22][23] His twenty-fifth birthday was the same day as the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Games.[6] Going into the Games, he was ranked third in the world.[6]
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics Patmore won a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m T46.[24]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Simon Patmore | APC Corporate". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ↑ Heslehurst, Brayden (2012-06-06). "Wakerley's Matthew Cameron named in Australian Paralympic team after missing Beijing games final | News, events and sport for Brisbane East". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Patmore eyes Paralympic qualification in Brisbane". Australian Paralympic Committee. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ Heslehurst, Brayden (2012-06-06). "Wakerley's Matthew Cameron named in Australian Paralympic team after missing Beijing games final | News, events and sport for Brisbane East". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chris Dutton (2012-06-06). "Canberra's Paralympic athletes aim for Games glory". Australian Capital Territory: Canberra Times. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Simon set for Paralympic glory and a birthday celebration". Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Aiden Lee (2011-04-08). "Breen set to challenge men". Stawell Times News. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Breen to race the men in Gift". ABC Grandstand Sport. 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "World Records Fall at Australian Athletics Championships | IPC". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "January results". Queensland Academy of Sport. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ "Athletics Australia - Cole makes Paralympic dream a reality". Athletics Australia. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ Mugabe, Bonnie (2010-10-08). "Rwanda: Poor Start Costs Muvunyi". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ↑ "Aussies win 11 gold". Sportal New Zealand. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ Jessica Halloran in Delhi (2010-10-14). "Aussie athletes have a 'winning attitude'". Fox Sports. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Watch out... here I come — Local News — News — General -". Stawell Times News. 2011-04-21. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ Sydney (2010-04-20). "Australian C'wealth Games athletics team named". Melbourbe: The Age. Retrieved 2012-07-16.
- ↑ Ian Peterson (2011-04-12). "Rouge-Serret chases Stawell Gift purse". Stawell Times News. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ "Athletics: Pistorius shows his class". NZ Herald. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ Anderson Giorge Regio (2011-01-23). "- Brasileiro conquista a prata no Mundial Paraolímpico" (in Portuguese). Jornal do Brasil. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
- ↑ "Patmore closes Nationals with victory". Australian Paralympic Committee. 2011-04-17. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ "Australian Paralympic Team Announced". Athletics ACT. 2012-06-06. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ "Walters sprints for London — Teenager set for Paralympics debut". Canberra Times (Canberra, Australia). 7 June 2012. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
- ↑ "Australian Paralympic team for the London Paralympics | Australian Paralympic Team announcement". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
- ↑ Simon Patmore's profile on paralympic.org. Retrieved 6 October 2012.