About Bruce Thwaite
Lived 1901 – 1991 (aged 89–90). Bruce Thwaite was an Australian athletics competitor.
Bruce Oliver Thwaite (2 December 1923 – 21 September 1991) was an Australian Paralympic competitor. During World War II, he sustained a spinal injury when he landed on a tree after parachuting from a bomber plane over Germany. He was treated at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital. At the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth, he won gold medals in the Men's Swimming 50 m Crawl Class B and Men's Swimming 50 m Breaststroke Class B events, a silver medal in the Weightlifting Class B Middleweight event and a bronze medal in the Men's Precision Archery event. He competed at the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics in swimming and weightlifting. He then took up lawn bowls.
The first New South Wales Paraplegic Sports Club meeting was held in his jewellery shop in the Sydney suburb of Concord.
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Who was Bruce Thwaite?
Australian paralympic competitor
When was Bruce Thwaite born?
Bruce Thwaite was born in 1901.
When did Bruce Thwaite die?
Bruce Thwaite died on 21 September 1991.
What was Bruce Thwaite's occupation?
Bruce Thwaite was an athletics competitor.
What nationality was Bruce Thwaite?
Bruce Thwaite was Australian.
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