Full name Paul Clohessy Nationality Australia | Name Paul Clohessy | |
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Born 11 November 1970 (age 50) Perth, Western Australia Similar Kingsley Bugarin, Kieran Modra, Priya Cooper | ||
Paul Clohessy, OAM(born 11 November 1970) is an Australian vision impaired tandem cyclist. He was born in Perth, Western Australia. He represented Australia at the three Paralympics Games - 1992, 1996 and 2000. He was also an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1997 and 2000 in cycling.
Paralympics
He competed but did not win any medals in his first Paralympics Games at the 1992 Barcelona Games. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a silver medal in the Men's Individual Pursuit Tandem open event with his cycling partner Eddy Hollands. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Sprint Tandem open event with his cycling partner Darren Harry, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event with Hollands.