Eric Magennis

Eric Magennis is an Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player and archer, born around 1937 or 1938. He first represented Australia at the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Edinburgh, where he won a pairs gold medal. At the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics he took part in archery and became the first Australian to win a gold medal in the lawn bowls Men's Singles event. He added Paralympic golds in the Men's Pairs with Bruce Thwaite in 1976 and with Roy Fowler in 1984, and retired from international competition in 1986 having won 78 of his 85 games over a 16 year career. He also played able-bodied bowls, competed in national championships in archery, weightlifting, table tennis and pistol and rifle shooting, and later worked as a lawn bowls coach in New South Wales. He is nicknamed Wheels in the bowling community.