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Jeff Simmonds
Jeff Simmonds (born 27 April 1944) is a former swimmer and athlete who participated at the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics winning a silver medal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=aus&name=Simmons&fname=&gender=all )〕 Before being a Paralympian, he was a notable rugby league half back with North Sydney Leagues Club. His rugby league career ended after a series of concussions and a serious fall.
==Personal==
Simmonds was born on 27 April 1944 in the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag. At the age of 21, in September 1965 he played in the premiership first grade preliminary final against Souths where he suffered concussion. He then went to Queensland for end of season games where he suffered further concussions. Finally, he suffered a fall from a hotel's fire escape in the Queensland town of Sarina. This fall, according to Simmonds, fractured his spine a few inches above the waist and he was then left a paraplegic.
Following the accident, Simmonds, a patient at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, received a visit from Kevin Betts, remedial gymnast at Mount Wilga Rehabilitation Centre, then a Commonwealth Department of Social Services hospital in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby (now a private hospital) who encouraged Jeff to get back into sport. On moving to Mount Wilga, Simmonds recalls his rehabilitation and sports training under Betts,"He never lets you get the idea he's satisfied with what you are doing. That is his way of making you train harder." 〔 In moving into Paralympic sport, ''The North Shore Clarion'' reported "Jeff has two things in his favour, superb physical condition and courage"
Before his accident he was a compositor/linotype printer.〔 After his accident he worked in various roles at the North Sydney Leagues Club in clerical work and was the Club's first time Coaching Director, and Secretary to the Under 23 Side. His philosophy on life was "I'm normal and that's the way I expect to be treated".〔
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