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Full name | Peter Thomas Trotter | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 22 May 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 21 October 2014 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 58)||||||||||||||||||||
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Peter Thomas Trotter (22 May 1956 – 21 October 2014) was an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer.[1][2]
Trotter lost the use of his legs at the age of 12 following complications from a spinal aneurysm.[3] Trotter became a paraplegic when he dived into the Ulladulla sea pool and had spinal aneurysm.[4]