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Marty Mayberry (born 9 February 1986) is a double leg amputee LW3 classified Paralympic alpine skier from Australia. He lost both legs after contracting meningococcal disease when he was sixteen years old. His experiences led him to study medicine, and he attended Griffith University and the University of Sydney where he pursued health science courses. Beyond the classroom, he has written a paper on Meningococcal disease, worked part-time on research about the disease, and talked about his experiences at a conference. While at a music festival, he met his future wife whom he married in June 2010. Having started out as an able-bodied skier, Mayberry took up the disability sport. He made his national team debut in 2005, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Winter Paralympics the following year, when he did not medal. With the aid of a prosthesis, adjustments were made to his skiing legs, and he competed in several skiing competitions during 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was selected for the Australian 2010 Winter Paralympics team at a ceremony in Canberra in November 2009. Between then and the start of the Games, he participated in a few more competitions, including one where he picked up a gold medal, and participated in a national team training camp. He was selected as Australia's flag bearer for the opening ceremony. In competition, he earned a silver medal in the men's downhill standing event, finished 24th in the Super-G, was disqualified from the slalom, and failed to finish in the giant slalom. Following the games, he retired from skiing. ==Personal== Mayberry was born on 9 February 1986,〔 and grew up in Byron Bay, New South Wales,〔 where he attended Byron Bay High School.〔 By 2009, he resided in Queensland, and was living in Yeerongpilly, Queensland by 2010. In June 2010, he married. a woman he met at a music festival.〔 Following a high school ski trip when he was in year 11,〔 Mayberry contracted meningococcal disease at the age of 16, and this resulted in double below the knee amputations. He was in a coma for two weeks as a result of the disease,〔 and, when he woke up at Byron Bay Hospital, learned his legs had been amputated.〔 One of the things that motivated him to keep going during rehabilitation was the opportunity for sports.〔 Mayberry studied health sciences at Griffith University,〔〔 and medicine at the University of Sydney.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mountainwatch.com/twentyten/features/7342396/Meet-Australia's-Paralympic-Alpine-Skiers )〕 He went into medicine partly because of his illness during high school.〔 He relocated to Sydney with his fiance to do so not long before the start of the 2009—2010 ski season. In August 2010, he was the opening speaker at the Amanda Young Foundation Meningococcal Conference, and in 2010 and 2011, worked part-time at the Kids Research Institute at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, where he was in contact with "Robert Booy in his research on the psycho-social impact of meningococcal B on families." He wrote up his experiences in dealing with meningococcal infection in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. He lives by Gandhi's quote "Be the change you want to see in the world".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/team/marty-mayberry )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marty Mayberry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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