Personal information | |
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Full name | Ness Ashby Murby |
Born | Melbourne, Australia | 4 October 1985
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Sport | |
Country | Canada |
Sport | Para-athletics |
Disability | Hyperferritinemia |
Disability class | F11 |
Events | |
Ness Ashby Murby (born 4 October 1985) is a Canadian Paralympian (PLY) who competes in Para-Athletics discus throw and javelin throw.[1][2][3][4]
Murby has competed in goalball, powerlifting and para-athletics, and has represented Australia, Japan and Canada.[5] He competes in the F11 disability class.[5] Representing Canada, Murby won a silver medal in javelin throw and a bronze medal in discus throw at the 2015 Parapan American Games.[6] Competing in javelin throw, he won a silver medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, coming sixth in discus throw at the intervening 2016 Summer Paralympics[5] and at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.[7] Murby participated in the second season of the AMI documentary series Mind Set Go in 2019.[8] In November 2020, he came out as genderqueer and transmasculine.[5][9]
In 2023, Murby was the subject of Ness Murby: Transcending, a six-part television documentary series on AMI-tv.[10]
Murby was born on 4 October 1985 in Melbourne, Australia.[7] He was born with limited eyesight, which deteriorated while he was a teenager, and is now blind.[8][11] Murby lives in Vancouver with his wife Eva Fejes, who met him in Japan.[11] Murby uses he/him pronouns.[12]