Brett Stibners
| File:200312 - Brett Stibners - 3a - 2012 profile photo.JPG Portrait of Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketballer Stibners in 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Brett Andrew Stibners | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Wollongong Roller Hawks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brett Andrew Stibners, OAM[1] (born 25 June 1979) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his fourth Games.[2]
Personal
[edit | edit source]Stibners was born on 25 June 1979, and is from the Wollongong suburb of Oak Flats.[3] He is a full-time athlete,[3] and is nicknamed Sticky.[3] His left leg was amputated above the knee after a car accident.[3][4] in 2001[5] when the car he was driving collided with a truck.[4][6] Prior to his accident, he worked as an apprentice electrician.[6]
Basketball
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Stibners is classified as a 4.0 player and is a forward.[7] He first started playing wheelchair basketball in 2003.[3] In 2010, he was the recipient of a A$10,000 grant by WorkCover NSW to enable him to worry less about money and prepare for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[4] He used the money to cover training and travel expenses, and to maintain his wheelchair.[4] He was at a press appearance announcing funding for Paralympic sport in March 2011. At the event, he played wheelchair basketball with then New South Wales Premiere Kristina Keneally.[5]
National team
[edit | edit source]Stibners first represented Australia on the national level in 2006.[3]
Paralympics
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Stibners was part of the gold medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[8] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[9] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[10] In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro[11] where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth.[12]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4.[2][13]
Other competitions
[edit | edit source]In 2003, Stibners was a member of the national squad that competed at the Gold Cup in Amsterdam. This was his first international appearance.[3] In 2007, he was part of the gold medal-winning team at the Arafura Games.[7] In 2009, he was part of the national squad that won gold at the Rollers World Challenge and the team that won gold at the Paralympic World Cup held in Manchester, England.[7] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[14][15] that won a gold medal.[16] In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.
Club basketball
[edit | edit source]Stibners started playing club basketball in 2002 for the Wollongong Roller Hawks of Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League. He is classified as a 4.0 player and plays as a forward.[14] In 2003, he won a league championship with the team.[6] In 2007, he played club basketball in Spain for CD Fundosa Group.[7] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with Wollongong Rollerhawks.[17] As of 2011[update], he plays his club basketball for the NWBL's Wollongong Roller Hawks. His team beat the Perth Wheelcats in the 2011 NWBL Championship. In the semi-final round, he scored 26 points and had 18 rebounds. In the finals, he had 23 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.[18]
Coaching
[edit | edit source]Stibners is an Assistant Coach with the Rollers at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.[19]
Hockey
[edit | edit source]Stibners named as a member of the Australian national indoor hockey team[3] prior to his 2001 accident.[5][6]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]Shellharbour City gave him a key to the city in 2008.[6]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Brett Stibners at the International Paralympic Committee Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Brett Stibners at Paralympics AustraliaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Basketball Australia Profile
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- Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Amputee-category Paralympic competitors
- Australian amputees
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia
- Coaches at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Paralympic coaches for Australia