LATHAM Bill

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 29 Oct 1989

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Sport Class: 4.0

Place of birth: COFFS HARBOUR, NSW

Birth Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Wheelchair Basketball	Men AUS Australia	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #10 AUS Australia 81 IRI Islamic Rep. of Iran 39	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #16 ALG Algeria 37 AUS Australia 83	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #29 AUS Australia 64 GER Germany 53	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #40 USA United States 66 AUS Australia 38	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Preliminary Round Group B #49 AUS Australia 69 GBR Great Britain 70	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Quarterfinal #59 JPN Japan 61 AUS Australia 55	Finished
	Ariake Arena	Men's Classification Playoff 5/6 #69 TUR Turkey 58 AUS Australia 74	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
2	Men	2012	London, GBR
6	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
1	Men	2014	Incheon, KOR
1	Men	2010	Birmingham, GBR
3	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER

Big Easy, Carnage (coffscoastadvocate.com.au, 07 Sep 2016; Athlete, 10 May 2016)

Watching movies and TV series. (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Spanish

CD Ilunion [Madrid, ESP]

Craig Friday [national]

Position style:

Centre, Forward (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

Sporting relatives:

His great-grandfather Edward "Tedda" Courtney played rugby league and was in the 1908 Australian team that toured England. (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018; Athlete, 10 May 2016)

Other sports:

He has won state Para swimming titles, been a junior wheelchair lawn bowls champion, and broken Australia age records in Para athletics. (smh.com.au 06 May 2007)

National league:

Division de Honor [ESP] (Twitter profile, 05 Dec 2020)

He began the sport in 1999 at age 10 in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia. (Athlete, 10 May 2016)

"Being able to play sport has been the best thing that could have happened. I started off swimming for my rehabilitation and fitness. That's where I got my strength. I was swimming before I had the accident, and it was still my major sport after the operation. I stayed with swimming until I was about 12. I broke a few records but swimming became too repetitive for me. The idea of a team sport was just what I wanted." (smh.com.au 06 May 2007)

Dutch wheelchair basketball player Koen Jansens. (paralympic.org.au, 15 Mar 2012)

He was named to the All Star team at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. (Instagram profile, 07 Dec 2019)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (Athlete, 10 May 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 10 May 2016)

Impairment Details
At age five he was ran over by a tractor on his family property in Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia. He sustained a fractured skull and serious damage to his legs resulting in four months in intensive care. At age 13, after getting around on crutches for eight years, he elected to have his left leg amputated. (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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