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Full name | Paul Damian Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 10 February 1979 Brisbane, Queensland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Damian Cross, OAM[1] (born 10 February 1979)[2] is an Australian swimmer with an intellectual disability.[3] He was born in Brisbane, Queensland.[2] He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in two events. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he competed in eight events and won a gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 swimming event,[4] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.[5] In 1999, he was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship holder.[6]
At the 1998 Christchurch IPC Swimming World Championships, he won silver medals in Men's 50m Butterfly and Men's 200m Individual Medley.[7]