BEVERIDGE Nic

Australia
Triathlon
14 Jul 1986
35
Male
PTWC1
MACKAY, QLD
 
Australia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
TRI Triathlon Men's PTWC 7

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Odaiba Marine Park
Men's PTWC
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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RankEventYearLocationResult
Paralympic Games
9PT12016Rio de Janeiro, BRA1:10:35
World Championships
4PTWC2017Rotterdam, NED1:10:44
9PTWC2019Lausanne, SUI1:17:47
9PT12015Chicago, IL, USA1:08:59
9PT12014Edmonton, AB, CAN1:17:14
11PT12016Rotterdam, NED1:12:32
17Men's TRI-12013London, GBR1:28:33
Commonwealth Games
2PTWC2018Gold Coast, QLD, AUS1:03:28
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Reading. (optus.com.au, 22 Apr 2020)
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Public Relations - University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, AUS
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English
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Louise Sauvage
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He won gold in the handcycling category at the 2016 Ironman Cairns event in Queensland, Australia. (Facebook page, 12 Jun 2016)
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2013 for Australia, World Championships in London, Great Britain (dailymercury.com.au, 23 May 2013)
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In 2018 he underwent surgery due to tendon inflammation in his right wrist and was sidelined from the sport for seven months. (paralympic.org, 01 Mar 2019)

In 2012 he needed an operation after his health deteriorated due to his impairment. "I had to have invasive surgery to correct the problem, and the recovery was three months of bed rest. They took tissue from my other organs to rebuild some of my insides." (trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017)
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He took up Para triathlon in 2012 and began competing in 2013 in Queensland, Australia. He had previously tried swimming and wheelchair basketball after acquiring his impairment, but did not enjoy either sport. "I played two games of wheelchair basketball and didn't enjoy it at all. I kept swimming for fitness, but I didn't compete." (dailymercury.com.au, 19 Dec 2016; uq.edu.au, 13 Oct 2014; trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017)
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He was inspired to take up the sport after watching the 2012 Paralympic Games on TV while recovering from an operation, and then reading an article about Australian Para triathlete Bill Chaffey. "I'd never watched the Paralympic Games before. Being stuck in bed though, I thought, why not? Something inside me clicked. It's the most memorable time in my life that I was inspired. I remembered I still had full use of my upper body and I'd not made the most of it. I decided if I recover from my surgery I wanted to make the most of it. I wanted to see what I was capable of. I typed in something strange [online] like 'extreme endurance Para sport'. I wanted something that would test my limits I didn't think a lot of people would be capable of doing. I read the article about Bill and was so excited to hear about Para triathlon! I decided this was it, I've got to get into this." (dailytelegraph.com.au, 16 Sep 2019; trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017; triathlon.org.au, 25 May 2014)
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To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (dailymercury.com.au, 19 Dec 2016)
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Competing at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (optus.com.au, 22 Apr 2020)
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His family and friends. (Allianz Facebook page, 20 Jul 2021)
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"Embrace the boredom, because that's where the thought process happens." (optus.com.au, 22 Apr 2020)
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In 2021 he was named Sports Star of the Year by Ryde Sports Foundation in Australia. (Ryde Sports Foundation Facebook page, 10 May 2021)

He was named among the Top 10 Sportspeople of 2016 by Australian newspaper the Daily Mercury. (dailymercury.com.au, 19 Dec 2016)

General Interest

Classification
PTWC (World Triathlon, 25 Jun 2021)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (dailymercury.com.au, 23 May 2013)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (dailymercury.com.au, 23 May 2013)

Impairment Details
He has paraplegia as the result of the effects of transverse myelitis [inflammation of the spinal cord], contracted in 2003. (trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017; dailymercury.com.au, 23 May 2013)

General
RIO EXPERIENCE
He says that placing ninth in the PT1 event at his first Paralympic Games in Rio in 2016 fuelled his desire to reach an even higher level in the sport. "When I got back from Rio, I felt dry and unfulfilled. I had the titles of Para triathlete and Paralympian, but I didn't feel like I'd filled them with the meaning they should carry. I just felt like there was so much more I could do in training, and within myself as an athlete, but I didn't know what that was. Two weeks after I got back, I reached out to [coach] Dan Atkins; I knew he was a great guy and a tough coach. I told him what I wanted to achieve. I wanted to make sure I'd done everything possible, so if my career ended the next day I'd be 100% satisfied I'd made the most of it and pushed myself as hard as I could." (trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017)

INSPIRATION
Having been inspired to take up the sport after reading an article about Australian Para triathlete Bill Chaffey, he competed together with Chaffey at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro before winning silver one place ahead of Chaffey at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. "I'm a sentimental type, so the fact Bill and I both went to Rio together with the sport's Paralympic debut was quite special to me." (gc2018.com, 07 Apr 2018; trizone.com.au, 10 Aug 2017)

FURTHER EDUCATION
He has also studied for a bachelor's degree in law at Queensland University of Technology in Australia. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jul 2021; dailytelegraph.com.au, 16 Sep 2019)

Legend
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Bronze Medal Event
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