Neil Fuller

Neil Fuller OAM is an Australian athlete, Paralympic competitor, and amputee.

During his youth, Neil was an ambitious soccer player, gaining a position playing at state level for South Australia. It was during a soccer match that his tibia and fibula were broken, as well as severing a major artery in his right leg. Becoming legally an adult during his time in hospital, he opted to have the lower part of his right leg amputated after gangrene had set in.

Neil has since made a comeback into the world of sports, becoming a world class runner and world record holder. He was inducted into the Athletics South Australia Hall of Fame in 1997.

He participated in four consecutive Summer Paralympic Games, from 1992 to 2004. In 1992 he won a gold medal, two silvers, and one bronze. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics, he took silver in the 100 and 200 metre races and gold in the 4×100 metre relay. Four years later, at the Sydney Paralympics, he won four gold medals in the 200 metres, 400 metres, 4×100 metre relay, and 4×400 metre relay, and a bronze in the 100 metres. At the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, he won a silver medal in the 400 metres, another silver in the 4×400 metre relay, and a bronze in the 4×100 metre relay.

References

External links

• ABC news article
• Athletics.org profile
• Neil Fuller's profile on paralympic.org

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