2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fearnley
Personal information
Full name
Kurt Harry Fearnley
Nationality
Australian
Born
(1981-03-23) 23 March 1981 (age 43) Cowra, New South Wales, Australia
Height
1.4 m (4 ft 7 in)
Weight
50 kg (110 lb)
Website
https://www.kurtfearnley.com/
Medal record
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Paralympic Games
3
7
3
World Championships
4
0
1
Commonwealth Games
2
2
0
Total
9
9
4
Men's athletics
Paralympic Games
2004 Athens
5000 m T54
2004 Athens
Marathon T54
2008 Beijing
Marathon T54
2000 Sydney
800 m T54
2000 Sydney
4×100 m relay T53/T54
2004 Athens
4×100 m relay T53/T54
2008 Beijing
800 m T54
2008 Beijing
5000 m T54
2012 London
5000 m T54
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Marathon T54
2008 Beijing
1500 m T54
2012 London
Marathon T54
2016 Rio de Janeiro
5000 m T53/54
IPC Athletics World Championships
2006 Assen
800 m T54
2006 Assen
5000 m T54
2006 Assen
Marathon T54
2011 Christchurch
Marathon T54
2006 Assen
1500 m T54
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi
1500 m T54
2018 Gold Coast
Marathon T54
2014 Glasgow
1500 m T54
2018 Gold Coast
1500 m T54
Kurt Harry Fearnley, AOPLY[1][2] (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals (three gold, seven silver and three bronze).[3][4][5] He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
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^"Fearnley, Kurt". It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
^"Australian Paralympic Athletics Team announced". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 2 August 2016. Archived from the original on 9 April 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2016.
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