John Maclean (sportsperson)
Australian triathlete, rower and motivational speaker / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Alexander Maclean, OAM[1] (born 27 May 1966) is an Australian triathlete, rower, and motivational speaker. A promising rugby league player in his youth, he became a paraplegic after being knocked from his bicycle by a truck in 1988. He subsequently became the first paraplegic to finish the Ironman World Championship and the first to swim the English Channel. Later, he was part of the athletics team at both the Olympics and Paralympics in 2000, and won a silver medal in rowing at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. In 2014, he completed the Nepean Triathlon without using a wheelchair, after regaining some use of his legs through Ware K Tremor therapy. He is the founder of the John Maclean Foundation, which assists wheelchair users under the age of 18. As a motivational speaker, his clients have included eBay and Pfizer.
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Full name | John Alexander Maclean | |||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||
Born | (1966-05-27) 27 May 1966 (age 58) Caringbah, Australia | |||||||||||
Website | johnmclean.com.au | |||||||||||
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