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Full name | Grant Karlis Mizens | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 19 April 1977 Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Grant Karlus Mizens, OAM[1] (born 19 April 1977)[2] is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He won one gold and two silver medals at the Summer Paralympics.
He is classified as a 2.0 player and plays guard.[2]
He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[3] that won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics,[4] and also part of the team that won a gold medal[5] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[6]
He was a member of the national team that competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships.[7] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[2][8] that won a gold medal.[9]
Mizens played club basketball for the West Sydney Razorbacks.[2] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Wenty League Wheelkings.[10]
He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[11]Mizens in his final year of high school was involved in a car accident that led to paraplegia from the waist down. [12] Mizen has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Illinois and is a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.[13] In 2020, he was appointed to Paralympics Australia Board and in March 2023 elected Vice President.[14] In 2024, he is Portfolio Manager at MLC Asset Management and a member of Sargood Foundation and Sargood Centre Boards.[15]