Darren Thrupp

Darren Brian Thrupp, OAM (born 6 December 1966) is an Australian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category T37 sprint events. He has won nine medals at six Paralympics.

Biography Thrupp was born in the Queensland town of Kilcoy. Before the accident, like many young men from country Queensland, he was involved in running, cricket and playing A-grade rugby league for the Wallumbilla Herefords. He was looking forward to a rugby league career.

During his career, Thrupp has trained on his own in the bush around Wallumbilla. and a Queensland Academy of Sport scholarship.

He works as a porter. That year, in the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, he was a part of the winning men's 4x100 m and 4x400 m T35–38 relay teams. At these Games, he also competed in the men's 100 m, 200 m and 400 m T38 events. He also competed in the men's 100 m T37 and men's long jump F37/38.

He has competed at the 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships. In 2002, he won gold medals in the men's 4x100 m T35–38 and men's 4x400 m T35–38 events. In 2006, he won gold medals in the men's long jump F37 and men's 4x100 mT35–38 events and bronze in the men's 100 m T37 event.

At the CPISRA World Championships in 2001, he won the men's long jump event and received a bronze medal in the 100 m event.