Discipline
Para Judo
- 66kgs Class B3
Paralympic Games Attended
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Tokyo 2020
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Beijing 2008
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Sporting Career Highlight
9th Place at IBSA World Judo Championships, Odevilas Portugal in 2018
Good, better, best - never let it rest - until your good is better and your better is best
South Africa-born Wayne Phipps has been an active member of the judo community since the age of eight. In his teenage years he won national titles and by his 20’s was competing for South Africa. He relocated to Australia in 2010 and after being diagnosed with a visual impairment, his coach in Perth suggested he consider competing in Para-Judo. After gaining classification he competed for the first time at the World Championships in Portugual in 2018.
Despite losing his one bout at Tokyo 2020, the Paralympic debutant became Australia’s third-ever Paralympian to compete in judo and the first Australian representative since Beijing 2008.
