Terry Mason
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 March 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Terry Mason (born 29 March 1943)[1] is an Australian Paralympic athlete and weightlifter, who won two bronze medals at two Paralympics.
Biography
[edit]Mason grew up in the New South Wales town of Lithgow, and participated in several sports in the local area as a child and young adult, such as football, field hockey, swimming, athletics and wrestling. At the age of 26, he was injured in an accident resulting in him being in a wheelchair. After the accident, Jack Wilkinson encouraged him to become involved in wheelchair sports to maintain his physical fitness.[2]
Two years after the accident, he was selected for the Australian team for the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Edinburgh, but did not attend the event.[2] At the 1972 Heidelberg Games, he competed in athletics and weightlifting, winning a bronze medal in the Men's Pentathlon 3 event.[3] At the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, New Zealand, he won gold medals in weightlifting and the men's pentathlon.[2] At the 1976 Toronto Games, he competed in athletics and weightlifting events, winning a bronze medal in the Men's Light-featherweight event.[3]
He coaches and promotes wheelchair basketball in the Taree area.[1] He assisted David Hall, a paralympic wheelchair gold medallist, early in his career.[4] He is included in the list of Lithgow sporting champions.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Naar, Tony (21 March 2013). "Terry Mason Paralympian". History of the Australian Paralympics Movement email list. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Lithgow's Sporting Champions". Lithgow Flash Carnival Website. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ a b "T. Mason". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2012.
- ^ "David Hall". Budgewoi Public School Website. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
External links
[edit]- 1943 births
- Living people
- Sportsmen from New South Wales
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic weightlifters for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic medalists in weightlifting
- Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- People with paraplegia
- People from Lithgow, New South Wales
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen