Bruce Wallrodt
 Wallrodt seen waving to the crowds during javelin competition at the 2000 Summer Paralympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Bruce Wallrodt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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26 September 1951 Bunbury, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bruce Wallrodt, OAM[1] (born 26 September 1951)[2] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He has competed at five Paralympic Games and won nine medals.
Personal
Wallrodt was born on 26 September 1951 in the Western Australian city of Bunbury.[2] He attended South Bunbury Primary School and Newton Moore Senior High School. After leaving school, he worked as a fitter and turner until the age of 29, when he had a spinal haemorrhage that left him paraplegic.[3]
Career
Sport to me was an extended arm of the rehabilitation process and made me realise that there was little that I could not do even if I had to do it from a wheelchair. Competing and mixing with my peers showed me that the upper limits of my capabilities were far greater than I had thought possible. Sport opened up many doors that seemingly would have remained closed had I not been involved with it. There is mot a lot a person in a chair cannot do if they put their minds to it.
In the 1988 Seoul Games, Wallrodt won two gold medals in the Men's Shot Put 2 and the Men's Javelin 2 events, and a bronze medal in the Men's Discus 2 event.[5] At the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands he won gold medals in the Men's Shot Put and Discus F4 events.[6] At the 1992 Barcelona Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Javelin THW4 event (for which he received a Medal of The Order of Australia),[1] and two silver medals in the Men's Discus THW4 and the Men's Shot Put THW4 events.[5] Going into the 1992 Games, he was a world record holder in discus, javelin and shot put.[7] In the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Shot Put F53 event and a bronze medal in the Men's Javelin F53 event.[5] In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.[8] He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's shot put T54 event[9] and came 4th in the Men's Javelin F54 - event.[10] At the 2004 Athens Games, he came fifth in both the Men's Javelin F54[11] and the Men's Shot Put F54 events.[12]
References
- 1 2 "Wallrodt, Bruce, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- 1 2 "Australians at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics: Athletes". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 20 January 2000. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ "Former Paralympian gold medalist to give on track keynote address" (PDF). City of Bunbury. 14 October 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ Mather-Brown, Bill (2002). The fight in the dog. Perth: T. Beck. p. 274. ISBN 0958000107.
- 1 2 3 "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ World Championships and Games for the Disabled - Athletics Results. Netherlands: Organising Committee. 1990.
- ↑ Barcelona Paralympics 1992 : Australian team members profile handbook. Glebe, New South Wales: Australian Paralympic Federation. 1992. 20779.
- ↑ "Wallrodt, Bruce: Australian Sports Medal". It's an Honour. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ↑ "Australian Honour Roll". Australian Paralympic Committee Annual Report 2010 (Australian Paralympic Committee): 10. 2010.
- ↑ "Results for the 2000 Men's Javelin F54 -". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ "Results for the 2004 Men's Javelin F54". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ↑ "Results for the 2004 Men's Shot Put F54". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2 January 2012.