Tristan Knowles
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Knowles
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| Full name | Tristan Malcolm Knowles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 25 April 1983 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tristan Malcolm Knowles, OAM (born 25 April 1983) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player.
Knowles was born on 25 April 1983 in Wodonga, Victoria. He became an above the knee amputee as a result of cancer. He went to the University of Wollongong where he earned a degree in commerce. When not playing basketball, he is a paraplanner working for the Commonwealth Bank.
Knowles's first played wheelchair basketball in 1999.
Knowles's played for the New South Wales U21 state team in the national competition. The state U21 team won the national championships four years in a row with Knowles as the captain.
Knowles 's first appearance on the national team was in 2001.
Knowles was part of the silver medal winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. He was also part of the gold medal winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
In October 2011, Knowles was named as part of the senior national squad that would compete at the Paralympic qualifying tournament for the 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver. In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, his fourth games, where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth.
Knowles was part of the 2006 national squad that finished third at the World Championships. In 2009, he was part of the national side that competed at the Rollers World Challenge. In the match against Japan, he scored 15 points. He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team win the gold medal at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship and 2014 Wheelchair Basketball World Championships.
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