Simon Patmore
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para-athletics, Para-snowboard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Simon Patmore, OAM (born 29 August 1987) is an Australian Para-athletics and Para-snowboard competitor. He won a gold medal in the Men's 100m T46 at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, and bronze in the Men's 200m T46 at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. At the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, Patmore won a gold medal in the Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL and bronze in the Men's Banked Slalom SB-UL.[1]
Personal
[edit | edit source]Patmore was born on 29 August 1987. He was born with Erb's palsy affecting his left arm.[1]
Para-athletics
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Patmore is a T46-classified competitor in Para-athletics.
At the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, Patmore won a gold medal in the Men's 100m T46.[1][2] In April 2011, he competed in the Stawell Gift over 120 metres.[3] At the 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, Patmore won a bronze medal in the Men's 200m T46 in 22.43 seconds.[4] He won gold over 200m at the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships in Melbourne.[5] At the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships, he won gold over 400m in 51.05 seconds.[6]
Patmore represented Australia at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, where he won a bronze medal in the Men's 200m T46 in 22.36 seconds.[1][7] He celebrated his 25th birthday on the day of the Opening Ceremony.[8]
Patmore is also a Queensland state record holder.[9]
Para-snowboard
[edit | edit source]After learning an upper limb impairment class in Para-snowboard would be added to the Paralympic program at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, Patmore transitioned from Para-athletics to Para-snowboard in 2014.[1]
Patmore made his World Cup debut in 2014 in Landgraaf, Netherlands, where he placed 10th in the Men's Banked Slalom SB-UL.[10] At the 2017 World Para-snowboard Championships at Big White, Canada, he placed fifth in the Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL and sixth in the Men's Banked Slalom SB-UL.[11] Patmore is also a Dew Tour silver medallist, Audi Quattro Winter Games silver medallist and dual Para-snowboard World Cup gold medallist.[9]
At the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL. With this gold, he became the first Australian to win a Paralympic Winter Games gold medal since 2002, the first Australian man to win a medal at the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games, the first Australian to win a gold medal in Para-snowboard at the Paralympic Games, and the first Paralympic champion in snowboard cross in his classification.[9][12][13] He also won a bronze medal in the Men's Banked Slalom SB-UL.[1]
At the 2019 World Para Snowboard Championships, Pyha, Finland, Patmore won the silver medal in Men's Snowboard Cross UL and finished fourth in the Men's Banked Slalom UL.[14]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]- 2018 – Ski & Snowboard Australia – Athlete of the Year[15]
- 2018 – Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association – Open Athlete of the Year[9]
- 2018 – Queensland Academy of Sport Peter Lacey Award for Sporting Excellence
- 2018 – AIS Sport Performance Awards – Para Performance of the Year
- 2020 – Medal of the Order of Australia – for service to snowboarding as a Gold Medallist at the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Games.[16]
References
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External links
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- Simon Patmore at the International Ski and Snowboard FederationLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Simon Patmore at World Para Snowboard
- Simon Patmore at World AthleticsLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Simon Patmore at Australian Athletics Historical Results
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- Simon Patmore at the International Paralympic Committee
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- Paralympic medalists in snowboarding
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Australian men sprinters
- Australian male snowboarders
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic snowboarders for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportsmen
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in athletics