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Full name | Raymond Barrett | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||
Born | 1952 New South Wales | ||||||||||||||
Died | August 2000 (aged 47–48) Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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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'.