Nigel Murray

This article is about the paralympic boccia player. For Bones character, see List of Bones characters#Vincent Nigel-Murray.

Medal record
Competitor for  Great Britain
Boccia
Paralympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	Individual BC2
Gold	2008 Beijing	Team BC1-2
Silver	2008 Beijing	Individual BC2
World Championships
Gold	2002 Portugal	Individual BC2
Gold	2002 Portugal	Team BC1-2
Silver	2010 Portugal	Individual BC2
Bronze	2006 Brazil	Individual BC2

Nigel Murray (born 22 May 1964,^[1] Leamington Spa, England) is a seven times national champion and triple Paralympic medal winner in the sport of boccia. He won gold in the BC2 class during the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. Although he only reached the quarter finals in Athens four years later he followed this up with a silver medal in the same event, and a gold medal in the team event, during the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China.^[2]

Since Beijing Murray has continued to win medals with a bronze in the European championship individual event in 2009 and a silver at the World championship a year later. He was part of the team that took gold at the 2009 Euros. The current world no.1 lives in Leamington and is a keen fan of Leamington F.C.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Athlete profile: Nigel Murray". BBC Sport. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/paralympics/profiles/nigel_murray.shtml. Retrieved 2008-09-12. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "Paralympics - GB's roll of honour". BBC Sport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/7606584.stm. Retrieved 2008-09-12. 
3. ^ "Nigels profile at GB Boccia". GB Boccia. http://www.gb-boccia.org/people.asp?itemid=24&itemTitle=Nigel+Murray+BC2&section=29&sectionTitle=Athletes. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 

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Name	Murray, Nigel
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Date of birth	1964-05-22
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