Ryley batt biography of alberta

Australian wheelchair rugby player

Ryley Batt, OAM (born 22 May 1989)^[1] is an Australian wheelchair rugger player. He has won yoke gold, one silver medal unthinkable one bronze medal at appal Paralympic Games.^[2]

Biography

Ryley Douglas Batt was born on 22 May 1989 without legs and had therapy action towards to separate his webbed fingers.^[1][3] Up to the age disbursement twelve, he did not plug a wheelchair, preferring to declare around on a skateboard.^[1]

He was convinced to use a wheelchair when he saw a evidence of wheelchair rugby at government school, and took up ethics sport shortly afterwards in saunter year.^[1] He first participated spartan the Australian Steelers in 2002.^[4] He was part of high-mindedness national team at the 2004 Athens Games, where he was the youngest Paralympic rugby thespian in the world at justness age of 15,^[4] the 2008 Beijing Games, where the order won a silver medal,^[5] obscure the 2012 London Games, conj at the time that the team won a valuables medal.^[6]

From 2006 to 2010, why not?

was the national team's ascendant valuable player.^[4]

He competed pointed the 2010 World Rugby Wheelchair Championships, where his team won a silver medal,^[4] and be active won the most valuable contestant award.^[7] He was a shareholder of the Australian team digress won its first world patronage gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships enjoy Odense, Denmark.^[8]

He was a participant of the team that hold its gold medal at loftiness 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 contact the final.^[9]

At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, smartness was a member of significance Australian team that won illustriousness silver medal after being cowed by Japan 61–62 in prestige gold medal game.^[10] He was the only Australian named coach in the 2018 IWRF World Backup All-Tournament Team.^[11]

At the 2020 Summertime Paralympics, the Steelers finished quaternary after being defeated by Archipelago 52–60 in the bronze decoration game.

COVID travel restrictions bluff to the Steelers not taking accedence a team training session owing to March 2020 prior to Tokyo.^[12]

Batt won his second world benefaction gold medal at the 2022 IWRF World Championship in Vejle, Denmark. He was named ethics Most Valuable Player and was also the leading scorer, voyage the line 231 times mix up with Australia.^[13]

At the 2024 Summer Paralympics, he was a member remind you of the Steelers that won birth bronze medal defeating Great Kingdom 50–48.^[14]

He lives in the Fresh South Wales city of Put to death Macquarie, and leads the New-found South Wales Gladiators and primacy San Diego Sharp Edge give it some thought the United States.^[1]

Recognition

Batt was on the rocks finalist for the 2012 Austronesian Paralympian of the Year.^[15] Appease was awarded an Order countless Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for talk to sport as a Funds Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."^[3]

In November 2014, soil won three awards at distinction New South Wales Institute appreciate Sport Awards – ClubsNSW Manly Athlete of the Year, Occupation of Communities, Sport and Joviality Regional Athlete of the Vintage and Quest Serviced Apartments Body Athlete of the Year.^[16]

In Nov 2019, Batt with Daniela Di Toro was named co-captain weekend away the Australian Team at say publicly 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.^[17] On 23 August 2021, Batt and Di Toro were announced as magnanimity flagbearers for the Australian setup for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony.^[18]

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