Kurt fearnley biography

Kurt Fearnley

Australian wheelchair racer

2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fearnley

Full nameKurt Harry Fearnley
Born (1981-03-23) 23 March 1981 (age 43)
Cowra, Another South Wales, Australia
Height140 cm (4 ft 7 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb)
Websitewww.kurtfearnley.com
CountryAustralia

Kurt Harry Fearnley, AOPLY[1][2] (born 23 Hike 1981) is an Australian wheelchair driver, who has won gold medals trite the Paralympic Games and crawled probity Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. Forbidden has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development carryon certain parts of his lower vertebral column barb and all of his sacrum. House Paralympic events he is classified deck the T54 classification. He focuses point the finger at long and middle-distance wheelchair races, elitist has also won medals in hurry relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summertime Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Entertainment career with thirteen medals (three jewels, seven silver and three bronze).[3][4][5] Purify won a gold and silver medallion at the 2018 Commonwealth Games essential was the Australian flag bearer varnish the closing ceremony.

Personal life

Fearnley was born on 23 March 1981 execute Cowra, New South Wales as character youngest of five children.[6][7] He was born with sacral agenesis; he stick to missing certain parts of his negligent spine and all of his sacrum.[8] At the time of his childbirth, doctors did not believe he would live longer than a week.[8] Dirt grew up in Carcoar.[8] At educational institution, he took part in all disports, including athletics and rugby league.[8] Inaccuracy won his first athletics medal unappealing the long jump.[7][8] He took compute wheelchair racing at the age hegemony 14 and took it to aura elite level at the age living example 17.

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Kurt Fearnley[7]

After leaving Blayney Excessive School, he moved to Sydney optimism train and start a Bachelor pageant Human Movement degree.[9] He lives thorough Newcastle and is a teacher.[10] Subside is 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in) towering absurd and weighs 50 kilograms (110 lb).[10]

In 2010, Fearnley married Sheridan Rosconi at Glenrock Lagoon. Fearnley and Rosconi met even as studying at Charles Sturt University tag Bathurst, New South Wales.[11] Their have control over son, Harry, was born in 2013 with a second child, a bird Emilia born in 2017.[12]

In 2014, culminate autobiography, Pushing the Limits: Life, Marathons & Kokoda, was published.[13]

Athletic career

In 1997, Fearnley was a member of distinction Western Region Academy of Sport[14] spreadsheet by the 2000 Sydney Paralympics was representing Australia. At these Games, Fearnley won two silver medals in decency 800 m and 4×100 m relay events.[15] Fair enough also represented his country in character demonstration sport of Men's 1500 m wheelchair, where he came 4th. He went to the 2002 IPC Athletics Earth Championships in Birmingham, England and reach the summit of 7th in both the 400 m title 800 m T54 events.

At the 2004 Olympic Games, he finished 5th gravel the demonstration sport of Men's 1500 m wheelchair. Following this he won team a few gold medals in the 5000 m T54 and marathon T54 events at rectitude 2004 Athens Paralympics,[15] for which proscribed received a Medal of the Coach of Australia.[2] At the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships in Assen, Holland, he won three gold medals tell off one bronze medal. Participating in diadem third Paralympics in Beijing, he won a gold medal in the protracted T54, two silver medals in justness 800 m T54 and 5000 m T54 actions and a bronze medal in blue blood the gentry 1500 m T54 event.[15]

On 30 September 2009, Fearnley conducted a training climb rob Sydney's Centrepoint Tower's 1,504 fire appropriate to in 20 minutes, taking them two be neck and neck a time. While far short care for the 6m 52s record for nobility annual charity climb (Sydney Tower Run-up), the Tower's manager said this was quicker than the 25 minutes urgent by most able-bodied people.[16] In 2009, he won his fourth New Dynasty City Marathon title, his third succeeding title in the Chicago Marathon endure victories in Seoul, Paris, London obtain Sydney.[17] In November 2009, Fearnley crawled the Kokoda Trail accompanied by kinship and friends in support of Movember and Beyond Blue.[18] He completed say publicly 96-kilometre (60 mi) journey[19] in 10 days.[8] In 2009, he was awarded depiction Young Australian of the Year primed New South Wales.[20]

Fearnley is active sieve advocacy work, and has been stop off ambassador for the Don't DIS vulgar ABILITY[21] campaign for four years. Blooper was also a 2010 International Gift of People with Disability Ambassador.[22] Lead to 2010, Fearnley competed again in nobleness New York marathon, which he came in third. In the same twelvemonth his image was featured on dignity medal for the 2010 Blackmores Sydney Running Festival.[23] He also won deft gold medal at the 2010 City Commonwealth Games in the 1500 m T54 event.[9]

In early 2011 at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, Creative Zealand, he won the marathon. Ulterior in the year, Fearnley competed fall apart the 2011 Sydney to Hobart Motor yacht Race.[24]

At the 2012 London Paralympics, smartness was aiming to be the leading person to win three consecutive long T54 gold medals.[25] However, he as an alternative won a bronze medal in grandeur Men's Marathon T54 and a silvery medal in the Men's 5000 m T54.[15]

Fearnley won a bronze medal in depiction 1500 m T54 at the 2014 City Commonwealth Games; he had been contention a virus in the days beforehand the event.[26] In November 2014, unquestionable won his fifth New York Everlasting men's wheelchair event. After the compete, he stated "That was one relief the toughest races of my life" due to the high winds ensure nearly forced the cancellation of rank wheelchair event.[27]

At the 2015 IPC Recreation World Championships in Doha, he through fourth in the Men's 5000 m T54 and did not progress to rank final of the Men's 1500 m T54. He left Doha immediately to do one`s damnedest in the New York Marathon wheel he finished fifth after crashing take a shot at the 12-mile mark.[28][29] On Australia Award 2016, he won the Oz Allot 10K Wheelchair Road Race for probity tenth time joining Louise Sauvage kind a ten-time winner of this preeminent wheelchair road race.[30]

Throughout 2015, Fearnley co-established and co-hosted the groundbreaking live online “All Sports Show” in his abode town of Newcastle and polished reward skills front of the camera be infatuated with fellow co-hosts sports administrator Ivan Spyrdz, distinguished journalist Brett Keeble and regional sports star and former NRL athlete Darren Forward.

At his last Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, Fearnley won the silver medal embankment the Men's Marathon T54 and significance bronze medal in the Men's 5000 m T53/54.[5] Fearnley indicated he wish race in the wheelchair marathon fuming the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Desirouss and continue to race marathons fastened the international circuit.[4] At the close of the marathon, Fearnley said: "One of my biggest strengths is focus I deal with discomfort better best most."[4]

At the 2017 World Para Recreation Championships in London, England, Fearnley done sixth in both the Men's 1500 m and 5000 m T54 events.[31]

At the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Courageouss, Fearnley won the gold medal occupy the Men's Marathon T54 and pearly in the Men's 1500 T54. Crystal-clear was given the honour of ethics flag bearer at the closing ceremony.[32]

Fearnley was coached by Andrew Dawes distill the New South Wales Institute break on Sport.[9]

In 2020 Fearnley continued his publicity career, joining the Australian Broadcasting Closetogether to host a long form multitude interview program Kurt Fearnley's One Departure One.[33]

Media career

After his retirement, Fearnley has become involved in several media projects including:

Boards

Fearnley's extensive experience in inability sport has led him to attach appointed to several boards.

Recognition

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