Kurt Fearnley

Kurt Fearnley

AO PLY

2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fearnley
Personal information
Full name	Kurt Harry Fearnley
Born	(1981-03-23) 23 March 1981 (age 43) Cowra, New South Wales, Australia
Height	140 cm (4 ft 7 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Website	www.kurtfearnley.com
Sport
Country	Australia
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Paralympic Games 3 7 3 World Championships 4 0 1 Commonwealth Games 2 2 0 Total 9 9 4 Men's athletics Paralympic Games 2004 Athens 5000 m T54 2004 Athens Marathon T54 2008 Beijing Marathon T54 2000 Sydney 800 m T54 2000 Sydney 4×100 m relay T53/T54 2004 Athens 4×100 m relay T53/T54 2008 Beijing 800 m T54 2008 Beijing 5000 m T54 2012 London 5000 m T54 2016 Rio de Janeiro Marathon T54 2008 Beijing 1500 m T54 2012 London Marathon T54 2016 Rio de Janeiro 5000 m T53/54 IPC Athletics World Championships 2006 Assen 800 m T54 2006 Assen 5000 m T54 2006 Assen Marathon T54 2011 Christchurch Marathon T54 2006 Assen 1500 m T54 Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 1500 m T54 2018 Gold Coast Marathon T54 2014 Glasgow 1500 m T54 2018 Gold Coast 1500 m T54

Kurt Harry Fearnley, AO PLY^[1][2] (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals (three gold, seven silver and three bronze).^[3][4][5] He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony.