 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Mizens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Grant Karlis Mizens | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[3]
He is classified as a 2.0 player and plays guard.[2]
He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[4] that won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics,[5] and also part of the team that won a gold medal[6] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[5] 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.[7]
He was a member of the national team that competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships.[8] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[2][9] that won a gold medal.[10]
Mizens plays club basketball for the West Sydney Razorbacks.[2] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Wenty League Wheelkings.[11]
