Simon Patmore
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Patmore
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| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||||||
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Simon Patmore (born 29 August 1987) is an Australian athletics competitor. He competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games where he earned a gold medal. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics.
Patmore was born on 29 August 1987, and is from the Brisbane area suburb of Carseldine in Queensland. As of 2012[update], he works as a public servant, working for Queensland Health as a technology officer. Simon was born with Erb's palsy, having nerve damage in his left arm.
Patmore is a T46 classified competitor. He took up running in 2009. As of April 2011[update], as a 23-year-old, he had a personal best time in the 100-metre race of 11.14 seconds. One of his Australian rivals is Gabriel Cole.
Patmore competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He finished first in the T46 men's 100-metre event with a time of 11.14 seconds. In April 2011, he participated in the Stawell Gift in the 120-metre race, starting at the 8-metre mark. At the January 2011 IPC World Athletics Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand, with a time of 22.43 seconds, he finished third in the 200-metre race. At the 2011 Australian Athletics Championships, he finished first in the 200-metre final. He competed at the 2012 Brisbane Track Classic, where he set a Paralympic qualifying time in the 100-metre event. His performance increased his rank to fourth in the world. He competed in the 2012 Australian Athletics Championships, where he won the men's 400-metre event with a time of 51.05 seconds. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics. His twenty-fifth birthday was the same day as the opening ceremonies for the 2012 Games. Going into the Games, he was ranked third in the world.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics Patmore won a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m T46.
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