Terry Mason
Australian Paralympic athlete and weightlifter
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Terry Mason (born 29 March 1943)[1] is an Australian Paralympic athlete and weightlifter, who won two bronze medals at two Paralympics.
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 March 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Mason grew up in the New South Wales town of Lithgow, and participated in several sports in the local area as a child and young adult, such as football, field hockey, swimming, athletics and wrestling. At the age of 26, he was injured in an accident resulting in him being in a wheelchair. After the accident, Jack Wilkinson encouraged him to become involved in wheelchair sports to maintain his physical fitness.[2]
Two years after the accident, he was selected for the Australian team for the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Edinburgh, but did not attend the event.[2] At the 1972 Heidelberg Games, he competed in athletics and weightlifting, winning a bronze medal in the Men's Pentathlon 3 event.[3] At the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, New Zealand, he won gold medals in weightlifting and the men's pentathlon.[2] At the 1976 Toronto Games, he competed in athletics and weightlifting events, winning a bronze medal in the Men's Light-featherweight event.[3]
He coaches and promotes wheelchair basketball in the Taree area.[1] He assisted David Hall, a paralympic wheelchair gold medallist, early in his career.[4] He is included in the list of Lithgow sporting champions.[2]