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Full name
  
Paul Damian Cross

Nationality
  
Australia


Name
  
Paul Cross

Role
  
Swimmer

Paul Cross (swimmer)

Born
  
10 February 1979
Brisbane, Queensland

Paul Damian Cross, OAM (born 10 February 1979) is an Australian swimmer with an intellectual disability. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in two events. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he competed in eight events and won a gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 swimming event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. In 1999, he was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship holder.

At the 1998 Christchurch IPC Swimming World Championships, he won silver medals in Men's 50m Butterfly and Men's 200m Individual Medley.

References

Paul Cross (swimmer) Wikipedia