Jayden Warn
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait
Personal information
National teamAustralia
Born (1994-05-23) 23 May 1994 (age 29)
Sport
CountryAustralia
SportWheelchair rugby
Disability class3.0
Medal record
Representing Australia
Wheelchair rugby
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio Mixed
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Odense Mixed
Silver medal – second place 2018 Sydney Mixed

Jayden Warn OAM (born 23 May 1994) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers and competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1][2]

Biography

Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria.[3] At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries.[4] He shattered six vertebrates in his neck and back.[4] He attended Warragul Regional College.[5]

He made his debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.

He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.[6][7]

Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final.[8]

At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, Australia, he was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal after being defeated by Japan 61–62 in the gold medal game.[9]

At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, the Steelers finished fourth after being defeated by Japan 52–60 in the bronze medal game.COVID travel restrictions led to Steelers not having a team training since March 2020 prior to Tokyo.[10]

He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Steelers aim to maintain their reign in Rio". Australian Paralympic Committee News. 25 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Steelers Eyeing Paralympic History… Again". Paralympics Australia. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Jayden Warn". Victorian Institute of Sport website. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Jayden Warn". Australian Paralympic Committee website. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. ^ Weatherhead, Nathan (2 June 2020). "Dtetermination the key for Jayden". Warragul Drouin Gazette. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Jayden aims for world champion". Waragul and Droun Gazette. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Australia wins first ever IWRF World Championship". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 11 August 2014. Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  8. ^ Lees, Chris (19 September 2016). "Steelers double up with Paralympics gold". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  9. ^ "Results". IWRF Wheelchaair Rugby World Championships website. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Australia names wheelchair rugby team of 12 for Tokyo 2020". Inside The Games. 31 July 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
  11. ^ "OAM Final Media Notes (S-Z)" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.

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