Marty Mayberry

Marty Mayberry (9 February 1986 – 18 December 2024) was an Australian double leg amputee LW3 classified Paralympic alpine skier. Mayberry lost both legs after contracting meningococcal disease when he was sixteen years old. This experience led him to study medicine, and he attended Griffith University and the University of Sydney where Mayberry pursued health science courses. Beyond the classroom, he wrote a paper on meningococcal disease, worked part-time on research about the disease, and talked about his experiences at a conference.

Having started as an able-bodied skier, Mayberry took up the disability sport. He made his national team debut in 2005, and went on to represent Australia at the 2006 Winter Paralympics the following year, when he did not medal. With the aid of a prosthesis, adjustments were made to his skiing legs, and he competed in several skiing competitions during 2007, 2008 and 2009. He was selected for the Australian 2010 Winter Paralympics team at a ceremony in Canberra in November 2009. Between then and the start of the Games, he participated in a few more competitions, including one where he picked up a gold medal, and participated in a national team training camp. He was selected as Australia's flag bearer for the opening ceremony. In competition, he earned a silver medal in the men's downhill standing event, finished 24th in the Super-G, was disqualified from the slalom, and failed to finish in the giant slalom. Following the games, he retired from skiing.

Background Mayberry was born on 9 February 1986, where he attended Byron Bay High School. and was living in Yeerongpilly, Queensland by 2010. In June 2010, he married a woman he met at a music festival.

Following a high school ski trip when he was in year 11, He was in a coma for two weeks as a result of the disease, He went into medicine partly because of his illness during high school. He relocated to Sydney with his fiancée to do so not long before the start of the 2009–2010 ski season. In August 2010, he was the opening speaker at the Amanda Young Foundation Meningococcal Conference, and in 2010 and 2011, worked part-time at the Kids Research Institute at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, where he was in contact with "Robert Booy in his research on the psycho-social impact of meningococcal B on families." He wrote up his experiences in dealing with meningococcal infection in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Mayberry lived by Gandhi's quote "Be the change you want to see in the world". He died in Brisbane on 18 December 2024, at the age of 38.

Skiing Mayberry was an LW3 classified skier who competed in standing events using a pair of artificial legs. He was back to competing at it on the disability side by 2004. When fully kitted out, he looked like an able-bodied skier, and was capable of skiing faster than .

Mayberry had won medals at IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup events and the Paralympic Games. and earned a bronze medal in slalom event at a 2008 World Cup competition. A ceremony was held in Canberra with Australian Paralympic Committee president Greg Hartung and Minister for Sport Kate Ellis making the announcement. Mayberry was selected to the largest Winter Paralympics team that Australia had ever sent to the Games. Prior to the start of the Games, he participated in a national team training camp in Vail, Colorado before the Aspen hosted World Cup.

As a 24-year-old, His parents were in Vancouver to watch him compete. and had a combined time of 1:22.78 and did not finish in the Giant Slalom. He won an Australian Institute of Sport Sport Achievement Award in 2010. By September 2010, he had retired from elite skiing, one of several 2010 Winter Paralympic skiers to retire following the games. Others who retired at the same time he did included Shannon Dallas and Bart Bunting.