MICHEL Daniel

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
15	Individual - BC3	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
2	Pairs - BC3	2018	Liverpool, GBR
3	Individual - BC3	2018	Liverpool, GBR
36	Individual - BC3	2014	Beijing, CHN

Dan (paralympic.org.au, 2016)

Athlete

Commerce - University of Wollongong, Australia

Partner Jess

Dutch, English

Ken Halliday [national], AUS

2013 for Australia, in Sydney, Australia (paralympic.org.au, 2016)

He took up the sport at age 15 in New South Wales, Australia. (paralympic.org.au, 2016)

He was introduced to the sport at a camp organised by Muscular Dystrophy NSW [New South Wales] in Australia. "Some of the guys from Boccia NSW came out and did a demonstration. I'd never heard of it. Never seen it before. I had a go and realised it was something I could play. Being something that I had craved for so long, I took to it like a gust of wind, I suppose you could say. I really went hard at it. I wanted to improve as fast as I could. Boccia gives me a sense of purpose in life that I didn't have prior to discovering the sport. It has given me an avenue through which to compete and strive for improvement every day, whilst introducing me to some of the best friends I will ever meet." (paralympic.org.au, 2016; mdnsw.org.au, 05 Dec 2019; theaustralian.com.au, 03 Apr 2020)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (paralympic.org.au, 2016; boccia.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)

Winning gold at the 2019 World Open in Hong Kong, China. (paralympic.org, 01 Jul 2019)

Australian cricketer Michael Clarke. (paralympic.org.au, 2016)

His mother. (boccia.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)

"People think of money when they think of prosperity but for me, it means success in achieving your goal." (theaustralian.com.au, 03 Apr 2020)

In 2017 he was inducted into the New South Wales [NSW] Boccia Athletes Hall of Fame in Australia. (Facebook page, 19 Mar 2017; bocciansw.org.au, 2017)

In 2015 he received the Tu Huynh Memorial Award for Sporting Excellence from NSW Boccia. (bocciansw.org.au, 2017)