Jamie Dunross
 2000 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Dunross | ||||||||||
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| Full name | Jamie Barry Dunross | |||||||||
| Nationality |
 Australia | |||||||||
| Born |
28 August 1968 Melbourne, Victoria) | |||||||||
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Jamie Barry Dunross, OAM[1] (born 28 August 1968)[2] is an Australian sailor. He was born in Melbourne.[2] A former miner, he became a quadriplegic after an explosion at a gold mine in Kalgoorlie.[3] He cannot use his legs, and has very restricted use of his arms.[4]
He had depression for five years after the accident, and his passion for sailing helped him to recover from it.[4] In 2000, he won the North American championship for disabled persons in St. Petersburg, Florida with Noel Robins and Graeme Martin, in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Games.[3] At the games, he won a gold medal with Robins and Martin in the Mixed Three Person Sonar event,[5][6] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] He also participated in the same event at the 2004 Athens Games, but did not win a medal.[5] In 2010, he became the first person with quadriplegia to circumnavigate Australia unassisted.[4] On 9 August 2016, his 2000 gold medal was stolen from the Royal Perth Yacht Club.[7] He has two children.[4]
References
- 1 2 "Dunross, Jamie Barry, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
- 1 2 Australian Media Guide : 2000 Paralympic Games (PDF). Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2000. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- 1 2 Smith, Neil (23 July 2000). "WA trio go for gold". The Sunday Times. p. 81.
- 1 2 3 4 "Father gets sailing record" (video). ABC News. 25 July 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- 1 2 "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ↑ Lulham, Amanda (28 October 2000). "Age no barrier for former America's Cup Skipper". The Courier-Mail. p. 38.
- ↑ Powell, Graeme; Bembridge, Courtney (11 August 2016). "Paralympic sailor Jamie Dunross 'shocked' as gold medal stolen in Perth yacht club burglary". ABC News. Retrieved 11 August 2016.