Mitchell Gourley
Mitchell Gourley April 2013
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| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Born |
2 June 1991 Geelong, Victoria |
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| Country | Australia | |||||||||
| Sport | Para-alpine skiing | |||||||||
| Disability class | LW6/8 | |||||||||
| Event(s) |
Downhill Super-G Giant slalom Slalom Super combined |
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| Paralympic finals | 2010 Winter Paralympics, 2014 Winter Paralympics | |||||||||
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Mitchell Gourley (born 2 June 1991) is an Australian Paralympic alpine skier who competed for Australia in the downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom and super combined events at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver and 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, but did not win a medal. At the 2017 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Tarvisio, Italy he won the gold medal in the Men's Super Combined Standing.
Mitchell Gourley was born in Geelong, Victoria, on 2 June 1991. He was born a congenital amputee, with his left forearm ending a few inches below his elbow. Mitchell can move the tiny stump of his forearm and uses it to hold and manipulate objects by gripping them in his elbow. He plays a variety of sports including cricket, Australian rules football, basketball, mountain biking and rock-climbing. He attended at Geelong College, and as of 2014 is studying commerce at the University of Melbourne.
Gourley became involved in high level Paralympic skiing as a result of Australian talent identification efforts, taking up the sport competitively in 2002 as an eleven-year-old. He was classified as LW6/8-2, the classification for athletes with an impairment to one arm, and made his Australian national team début in 2006, as a fifteen-year-old. He has held scholarships with the Victorian Institute of Sport and the Australian Institute of Sport.
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