Alberto Campbell-Staines

Alberto Jonathan Campbell-Staines (born 27 June 1993) is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability who competes in the T20 classification. He won two bronze medals at the 9th INAS Athletics World Championships.

Personal Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 June 1993. He was born prematurely and at three months was sent to the state-run orphanage in Kingston, where he suffered from neglect and malnutrition. At the orphanage in grade one he was taught by Julie-Anne Staines, a teacher from Australia, who with her husband Paul decided to adopt Campbell at the age of nine in 2002. His adoption and Australian citizenship process was long and difficult. The family returned to Australia from Jamaica in September 2003 with Campbell entering on a tourist visa after an adoption visa denied. He won the Men's 400 m Ambulant at the 2015 Australian Championships. Competing at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix that was part of the 2015 Italian Championships, he finished second in the Men's 400 m T20. He will also be competing in the 2020 Paralympics, in August 2021. This time Alberto will be competing for Jamaica.

Campbell-Staines has on his bedroom wall Eric Liddell's famous words ""I believe that God made me for a purpose, but He also made me fast. When I run, I feel His pleasure". After his success at the World Championships, he said ""I worship God when I run. He is the one who made me fast. I always thank him after races, whether I win or lose, I run for God".

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, he qualified for the final of the Men's 400m T20 with a time of 51.94 but he did not start in the final.

In 2015, he is a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship holder and is aiming to compete at the 2016 Rio Paralympics where the Men's 400 m T20 is on the athletics program.

In 2021 he represented Jamaica in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.