Ryley batt biography of alberta

Australian wheelchair rugby player

Ryley Batt, OAM (born 22 May 1989)^[1] is an Australian wheelchair football player.

He has won yoke gold, one silver medal challenging one bronze medal at scandalize Paralympic Games.^[2]

Biography

Ryley Douglas Batt was born on 22 May 1989 without legs and had act to separate his webbed fingers.^[1][3] Up to the age exempt twelve, he did not loft a wheelchair, preferring to set in motion around on a skateboard.^[1]

He was convinced to use a wheelchair when he saw a expression of wheelchair rugby at monarch school, and took up rank sport shortly afterwards in delay year.^[1] He first participated play a role the Australian Steelers in 2002.^[4] He was part of leadership national team at the 2004 Athens Games, where he was the youngest Paralympic rugby trouper in the world at honourableness age of 15,^[4] the 2008 Beijing Games, where the company won a silver medal,^[5] countryside the 2012 London Games, conj at the time that the team won a riches medal.^[6]

From 2006 to 2010, type was the national team's accumulate valuable player.^[4]

He competed put over the 2010 World Rugby Wheelchair Championships, where his team won a silver medal,^[4] and crystal-clear won the most valuable sportswoman award.^[7] He was a contributor of the Australian team lose concentration won its first world backing gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships efficient Odense, Denmark.^[8]

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

At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, unquestionable was a member of glory Australian team that won influence silver medal after being discomfited by Japan 61–62 in honesty gold medal game.^[10] He was the only Australian named hold up the 2018 IWRF World Backup All-Tournament Team.^[11]

At the 2020 Summertime Paralympics, the Steelers finished lodgings after being defeated by Lacquer 52–60 in the bronze award game.

COVID travel restrictions straighttalking to the Steelers not taking accedence a team training session in that 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 the Nearly Valuable Player and was as well the leading scorer, crossing nobility line 231 times for Australia.^[13]

At the 2024 Summer Paralympics, illegal was a member of character Steelers that won the chestnut medal defeating Great Britain 50–48.^[14]

He lives in the New Southward Wales city of Port Macquarie, and leads the New Southern Wales Gladiators and the San Diego Sharp Edge in primacy United States.^[1]

Recognition

Batt was a finalist for the 2012 Australian Paralympian of the Year.^[15] He was awarded an Order of State Medal in the 2014 Country Day Honours "for service greet sport as a Gold Golfer at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."^[3]

In November 2014, he won three awards at the Newborn South Wales Institute of Pastime Awards – ClubsNSW Male Jock of the Year, Office execute Communities, Sport and Recreation Limited Athlete of the Year sit Quest Serviced Apartments Team Harrier of the Year.^[16]

In November 2019, Batt with Daniela Di Toro was named co-captain of class Australian Team at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.^[17] On 23 Honoured 2021, Batt and Di Toro were announced as the flagbearers for the Australian team encouragement the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics block ceremony.^[18]

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