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Grant Mizens
Australian wheelchair basketball player From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Grant Karlus Mizens, OAM[1] (born 19 April 1977)[2] is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He won one gold and two silver medals at the Summer Paralympics. In June 2025, he was appointed the President of Paralympics Australia. [3] As Paralympics Australia President, he became Vice President on the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Basketball
He is classified as a 2.0 player and plays guard.[2]
National team
Paralympics
He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[4] that won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics,[5] and also part of the team that won a gold medal[6] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[5] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[7]
Other competitions
He was a member of the national team that competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships.[8] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[2][9] that won a gold medal.[10]
Club basketball
Mizens played club basketball for the West Sydney Razorbacks.[2] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Wenty League Wheelkings.[11]
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Personal
He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[12] Mizens in his final year of high school was involved in a car accident that led to paraplegia from the waist down.[13] Mizen has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Illinois and is a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.[14]
In 2020, he was appointed to Paralympics Australia Board, in March 2023 elected vice president and in June 2025 was appointed President.[15] In 2024, he is Portfolio Manager at MLC Asset Management and a member of Sargood Foundation and Sargood Centre Boards.[16]
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References
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