Matthew Cameron
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2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Cameron
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| Born | 20 September 1985 | |||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||
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Matthew Cameron (born 20 September 1985) is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal.
Personal
Cameron was born on 20 September 1985[1] and is from Wakerley, Queensland.[2][3][4] He carried the Paralympic torch during the 2000 Summer Paralympics torch relay.[1][4] He was named the 2003 Townsville's Australian Sportsperson of the Year.[1][4] He attended the Barrier Reef Institute of TAFE, where he earned a certificates in business and computer aided drafting.[1] As of 2012[update], he works as a compliance enforcement officer[1] and lived in Wynnum, Queensland.[5]
Cameron has popliteal web syndrome, a condition he has had since birth.[1][4] He has had twenty-five surgeries as a result of the syndrome and he cannot stand.[1][4]
Wheelchair basketball
Cameron has played wheelchair basketball and represented Australia as a member of the Australia men's national under-20 wheelchair basketball team.[1][4] In 2004, he had a wheelchair basketball scholarship from the North Queensland Sports Foundation.[6]
Athletics
Cameron is a T54 competitor,[1][2][7][8] competing in 100 metres, 200 metres, and 400 metres events.[2][9] He started competing in 2005,[1] and first represented Australia in 2006.[1]
Cameron competed in the 2006 IPC World Championship in the men's T54 100 metres, 200 metres, and 400 metres events.[9] He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in the 100m and 4 x 100-metre relay team events. He missed the finals in the 100m event by one spot. His relay team was disqualified[2][4][5][7][10][11][12][13] after he fell from his chair during the transition.[12][13] He competed in the 2011 City2Surf.[14] At the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships, he finished second in the 200-metre wheelchair race final.[15] He finished first in the 100-metre race.[15] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics in the 100-metre event.[1][2][3][5][16][17][18]
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics Cameron participated in the Men's 100 m T54 and Men's 4 × 400 m T53/54 events, winning a bronze in the 4 × 400 m.[19]
References
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- ↑ Results for Matthew Cameron from the International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
External links
- EngvarB from May 2015
- Use dmy dates from May 2015
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2012
- Paralympic athletes of Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Living people
- 1985 births
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
