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Roy Fowler
Roy Fowler (22 March 1920〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Roy Fowler )〕 – 19 September 2002)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fowler, Roy )〕 was an Australian Paralympic competitor, who won ten medals at six Paralympics from 1964 to 1988. ==Personal== Fowler was born in Brisbane.〔 He played rugby league and competed in swimming for his school until he was twelve, when he went to the outback to work at a drover's camp during the Great Depression. At the age of fourteen, he had his first professional fight.〔 During World War II, he was a gunner in the 2/2 Tank Attack Regiment of the Australian Army,〔 and after the war, he toured Australia as part of a tag team professional wrestling circuit.〔 In 1963 he had a cerebral haemorrhage after a coalmining accident, and became a quadriplegic.〔 He spent six months in the spinal unit of the Princess Alexandra Hospital and then went to the Kingshome Rehabilitation Centre, where he was introduced to wheelchair sport.〔 He died on 17 September 2002 at the age of 82. He was survived by his wife, Mary, and at the time of his death he was living in East Ipswich.〔 He was nicknamed "Chook".〔
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