O'NEILL-THORNE Tom

Wheelchair Basketball

Date of Birth: 8 Apr 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Sport Class: 3.0

Place of birth: NHULUNBUY, NT

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
6	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
World Championships
1	Men	2014	Incheon, KOR
3	Men	2018	Hamburg, GER

Tommygun (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

Occupation:

Griffith University, Mount Gravatt, QLD, AUS

Languages spoken:

Queensland Spinning Bullets [Brisbane, QLD, AUS]

Craig Friday [national]

Position style:

Guard (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

2013 for Australia, World Championships Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

National league:

National Wheelchair Basketball League [AUS] (australia.basketball, 26 Nov 2019)

He began wheelchair basketball at age 10 in Darwin, NT, Australia. (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

"I watched the Australian team play and thought I would give it a go at my local competition, and it took off from there." (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

Australian wheelchair basketball player Tige Simmons. (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

In 2013 and 2015 he was named Northern Territory Junior Sportperson of the Year at the NT Sports Awards. (dtsc.nt.gov.au, 04 Nov 2019)

In 2014 he was named Australian Male Junior Wheelchair Basketballer of the Year by Basketball Australia. (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

General Interest

Type of Impairment
Impaired range of motion (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

Impairment Details
He has arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. "Tendons and muscles in my hips, knees and ankles did not grow in the womb, I have limited movement in my legs." (Athlete, 11 May 2016)

General
STOLEN RING
In January 2018 his family home in Darwin, NT, Australia, was broken into and the ring he won at the 2014 World Championships in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where Australia won gold was stolen. In April 2019 the ring and other family possessions that were also stolen in the incident were returned after they were recovered by police. (9news.com.au, 04 Apr 2019)

REFEREE
He is a qualified wheelchair and able-bodied basketball referee. (australia.basketball, 18 Aug 2018)

Social Media

Legend

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

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