Wayne Phipps
Australian Paralympic athlete
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Wayne Phipps (born 25 June 1973) is an Australian Paralympic judoka. He competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Personal
Phipps was born on 25 June 1973 in South Africa.[2] He moved to Australia in 2010.[1] In 2015, he was diagnosed with an eye condition.[1]
Judo
He started judo at the age of eight.[1] In his teenage years, he won national titles and in his twenties represented South Africa at world championships.[1] After his diagnosis, his coach Carlo Knoester at the Kano Judo Schools in Perth told him about Paralympic judo.[1]
He is judo classification is B3.[3] Phipps competed for the first time in Para-judo at the World Championships in Portugal in 2018.[1] At the 2021 IBSA Visually Impaired Judo in Warwick, he finished sixth in -66 kg class.[4]
Australia had not been represented in Paralympic judo since the Beijing 2008 Paralympics. At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Phipps qualified in the men’s half-lightweight category Men's 66 kg. He lost to Munkhbat Aajim of Mongolia in the preliminary round.[5]
