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
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
- ^ 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.