Ray Barrett (athlete)

Ray Barrett
Personal information
Full nameRaymond Barrett
Nationality Australia
Born1952 (1952)
New South Wales
DiedAugust 2000 (aged 47–48)
Queensland, Australia
Medal record
Men's para athletics
Representing  Australia
Paralympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Heidelberg 100 m Wheelchair 2

Raymond Barrett (1952 – August 2000) was an Indigenous Australian Paralympic athlete left a paraplegic following a car accident. Prior to this he was a champion juvenile athlete in able-bodied sports. A bronze medalist at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Heidelberg Germany, a high achiever at the Stoke Mandeville Games England, Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, National Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Games, FESPIC Games and State selection trials. A sporting complex in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney is named in his honor. The people of this Shire were his 'significant others'.