Roy Fowler (Paralympian)

Roy Fowler, born on 22 March 1920 and died on 19 September 2002, was an Australian Paralympic competitor who won ten medals at six Paralympics between 1964 and 1988. He was born in Brisbane, worked as a drover, served as a gunner in the 2/2 Tank Attack Regiment in the Second World War, and toured Australia in professional wrestling. A coalmining accident in 1963 left him a quadriplegic, and he came to wheelchair sport at the Kingshome Rehabilitation Centre. At Tokyo in 1964 he won three swimming golds and two archery silvers. Archery was his favourite sport. In 1981 he took up lawn bowls and won a Paralympic gold in the pairs at Seoul in 1988. He won nine national singles titles and 100 medals in national and international wheelchair sport, and received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000.