Luke Cain

Luke Cain (born 3 February 1980) is an SH2-classified Australian shooter who became a paraplegic after an accident while playing Australian rules football. He started competing in 2007, as the sport suited his disability, and has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2008. He first represented Australia internationally in 2009 at a World Cup event in South Korea. He has also represented Australia in two Paralympic Games including the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Personal Cain was born on 3 February 1980 in Rosebud, Victoria. He started playing Australian rules football when he was seven years old for the Rye Football Club. He played senior football for Rosebud Football Club as a full-forward. He is a paraplegic, , he resides in Boneo, Victoria. Cain has been an inspiration to his cousin on the football field. Other cousins include AFL players Jason Cloke and Cameron Cloke. He has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2008, He took up the sport of shooting because it was one of the few available to people with his physical limitations.

Cain started competing in 2007, and made the Australian national team the same year. he earned a bronze, silver and gold medal. At the 2010 IPC Shooting World Championships in Zagreb, he came in first in the SH-2 prone air event by setting a world record of 600 points, a perfect score. He competed in the United States-hosted International Paralympic Committee World Cup in 2011, In 2012, he trained up to six days a week.

Cain was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in Mixed R5-10m Air Rifle Prone-SH2 and Mixed R4-10m Air Rifle Standing-SH2 shooting events. Competing on 3 September, he did not medal, finishing 27th in the standing event and 28th in the prone event.

Most recently Cain had represented Australia in the 2016 Rio Paralympics. He competed in the Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2 and the Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2. Cain did not medal, placing 26th in the standing event and 33rd in the prone event.

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