Country Australia Sport Wheelchair rugby | Disability class 3.0 Name Jayden Warn | |
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Born 23 May 1994 (age 29) ( 1994-05-23 ) | ||
Jayden Warn Documentary
Jayden Warn (born 23 May 1994) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers.
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Biography
Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria. At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries. He shattered six vertebraes in his neck and back.
He made is debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.
He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.
Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final.
In 2014, he was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.