Neil Fuller

Football career

Originally Fuller was a budding young professional in the Australian football and belonged in 1987 to the selection of South Australia at the National Youth Soccer Championships. Two weeks after the tournament, he came off the bench in a game in the final minutes and unhappy little later fouled by an opponent. In this action, Fuller both the calf and the shin of the right leg broke. The splintered bone severed an artery. In the following three weeks, he underwent five surgeries in the hospital, but were not successful. Finally, the lower part of the leg had to be amputated.

Another career

After his hospitalization, he received a below-knee prosthesis and began to train athletics. Within a short time he became one of the best sprinters of his country. In 1992, he took in Barcelona for the first time in Australia at the Summer Paralympics in part and entered there under the classification of amputees ( T44 ). He won a gold, two silver and a bronze medal.

In the 1990s, Fuller was in his classification of the dominant athletes in the sprints and was able to win numerous victories in other Paralympic Games, but also at world championships. From 1994 to 2002 he participated in all discharged by the International Paralympic Committee World Championships. In addition, he took in 2001 at the World Athletics Championships of Disabled Persons of the International Association of Athletics Federations in Edmonton part.

In recognition of his achievements he was named Neil Fuller at the closing ceremony of Summer Paralympics in Sydney for the standard bearer of the Australian team.

Awards

Due to its raised over a long period of very good athletic performance Fuller was honored over the years with various honors:

Records

  • Long Jump: 5.98 m (29 August 1997 Duderstadt ), World Record
  • 100 meters: 11.42 s ( August 31, 1997, Duderstadt ), current Australian record
  • 800 meters: 2:14,44 min (May 28, 1998 San Diego ), world record, current Australian record
  • 400 meters: 51.89 s ( October 30, 1999, Sydney ), world record, current Australian record
  • 4 × 100 meters: 43.56 s (24 March 2000, Sydney ), current world record
  • 4 × 400 meters: 3:32,44 min ( 24 October 2000 Sydney ), World Record
  • 200 meters: 22.78 s (25th October 2000 Sydney ), current Australian record

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  • Athlete (Australia)
  • Paralympics champion ( athletics)
  • Paralympian (Australia)
  • Carriers of the Medal of the Order of Australia
  • Born in 1970
  • Man
1992 Summer Paralympics 4 × 100 metres relay 1996 Summer Paralympics 2000 Summer Paralympics 4 × 400 metres relay 400 metres 2004 Summer Paralympics Tibia
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