Jayden Warn
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| National team | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 May 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | ||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 3.0 | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jayden Warn (born 23 May 1994) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers.[1]
Biography
Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria.[2] At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries.[3] He shattered six vertebraes in his neck and back.[4]
He made is debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.
He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.[5][6]
Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final. [7]
In 2014, he was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2]
References
- ↑ "Steelers aim to maintain their reign in Rio". Australian Paralympic Committee News. 25 July 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- 1 2 "Jayden Warn". Victorian Institute of Sprt website. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ "Jayden Warn". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ↑ "Jayden Warn". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
- ↑ "Jayden aims for world champion". Waragul and Droun Gazette. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ "Australia wins first ever IWRF World Championship". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 11 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
- ↑ Lees, Chris (19 September 2016). "Steelers double up with Paralympics gold". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 19 September 2016.