Bruce Wallrodt
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Full name | Bruce Wallrodt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bunbury, Western Australia | 26 September 1951||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 July 2019 Perth, Western Australia | (aged 67)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bruce Wallrodt, OAM[1] (26 September 1951 – 2 July 2019) was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He competed at five Paralympic Games and won nine medals, four of them gold.
Personal
[edit]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]
Wallrodt died on 2 July 2019 at the age of 67.[4]
Career
[edit]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.
Bruce Wallrodt[5]
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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[6] Going into the 1992 Games, he was a world record holder in discus, javelin and shot put.[8] In the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Shot Put F53 event, in which he broke a world record, and a bronze medal in the Men's Javelin F53 event.[6][9] In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.[10] He won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's shot put T54 event[11] and came 4th in the Men's Javelin F54 – event.[12] At the 2004 Athens Games, he came fifth in both the Men's Javelin F54[13] and the Men's Shot Put F54 events.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Wallrodt, Bruce, OAM". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ Robertson, Lauren (4 July 2019). "Vale Bruce Wallrodt OAM". News. Paralympics Australia. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ Mather-Brown, Bill (2002). The fight in the dog. Perth: T. Beck. p. 274. ISBN 0958000107.
- ^ a b c "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. 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.
- ^ walker, Kylie (28 October 2000). "Insatiable appetite". The Newcastle Herald. p. 50.
- ^ "Wallrodt, Bruce: Australian Sports Medal". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "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.