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Jayden Warn
2016 Australian Paralympic Team Portrait
Personal information
National teamAustralia
Born (1994-05-23) 23 May 1994 (age 30)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair rugby
Disability class3.0
Medal record
Representing Australia
Wheelchair rugby
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio Mixed
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Odense Mixed
Silver medal – second place 2018 Sydney Mixed

Jayden Warn OAM (born 23 May 1994) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers.[1]

Biography

Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria.[2] At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries.[3] He shattered six vertebraes in his neck and back.[4]

He made is debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.

He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.[5][6]

Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final. [7]

At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, Australia, he was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal after being defeated by Japan 61-62 in the gold medal game.[8]

In 2014, he was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2] He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Steelers aim to maintain their reign in Rio". Australian Paralympic Committee News. 25 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ a b "Jayden Warn". Victorian Institute of Sprt website. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Jayden Warn". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  4. ^ "Jayden Warn". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. ^ "Jayden aims for world champion". Waragul and Droun Gazette. 8 July 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  6. ^ "Australia wins first ever IWRF World Championship". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 11 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  7. ^ Lees, Chris (19 September 2016). "Steelers double up with Paralympics gold". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Results". IWRF Wheelchaair Rugby World Championships website. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  9. ^ "OAM Final Media Notes (S-Z)" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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