Michael Ozanne
Australian wheelchair rugby player
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Michael "Mick" Ozanne (born 28 April 1987) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He represented the Steelers at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
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| National team | Australian national wheelchair rugby team (2013–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 April 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair rugby | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | 0.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ozanne was born on 28 April 1987[2] and lives in Wooloowin, Brisbane, Queensland.[3] Ozanne injured his spinal cord at the level of his C6 vertebra diving into a shallow canal as a 19-year-old.[3] He took up wheelchair rugby after a demonstration of its brutality shortly after his accident.[3] He made his 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.[4][5]
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.[6]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, the Steelers finished fourth after being defeated by Japan 52–60 in the bronze medal game.COVID travel restrictions led to Steelers not having a team training since March 2020 prior to Tokyo.[7]
Ozanne won his second world championship gold medal at the 2022 IWRF World Championship in Vejle, Denmark, when Australia defeated the United States.[8]