Cameron Rahles-Rahbula

Cameron Rahles-Rahbula

Cameron Rahles- Rahbula April 2013
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	9 July 1983 Camperdown, Victoria
Sport
Sport	Para-alpine skiing
Disability class	LW2
Event(s)	Downhill Super-G Giant Slalom Slalom Super Combined
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Winter Paralympic Games 2010 Vancouver Men's Slalom standing 2010 Vancouver Men's Super Combined standing IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships 2004 Wildschönau, Austria Men's Super G LW2 2004 Wildschönau, Austria Men's Downhill LW2 2004 Wildschönau, Austria Men's Slalom LW2 2009 Jeongseon, Korea Men's Slalom Standing 2009 Jeongseon , Korea Men's Giant Slalom Standing New Zealand Winter Games 2011 Queenstown Giant Slalom Standing 2011 Queenstown Super G Standing 2011 Queenstown Slalom Standing

Cameron Rahles-Rahbula (born 9 July 1983) is a Paralympic alpine skier from Australia. He won two bronze medals at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver. He represented Australia in four Paralympics, stating with the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City and the 2006 Winter Paralympics in Torino. He did not compete in any events at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi due to knee and ankle injuries suffered just prior to the Games but carried the Australian flag in the Parade of Nations at the Opening Ceremony. He also won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2004 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Wildschönau, Austria, and a gold and a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Jeongseon, Korea. He retired after the Sochi Games.

Cameron Rahles-Rahbula was born in Camperdown, Victoria, on 9 July 1983. He was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer at the age of 12 and after unsuccessful chemotherapy had his left leg amputated above the knee at the age of 14. He attended a weekend ski camp at Mount Buller organised by Challenge, a children's cancer support network two weeks after his amputation. Within three days, he was able to ski by himself and this was the start of his Paralympic skiing career.

Rahles-Rahbula attended Geelong Grammar School. He went to Timbertop, for a year, where intense physical training — running, hiking and other outdoor programs — are required. At university, he studied physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne and currently works as a physiotherapist.