Paul Wiggins

Paul Wiggins (born 7 June 1962) is an Australian wheelchair racer.

Biography Wiggins was born in the Tasmanian town of Koonya, on the Tasman Peninsula. He began wheelchair racing in 1988.

He competed but did not win any medals at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Wheelchair Marathon and a bronze medal in the Men's Wheelchair 800 m event. At the 1994 Los Angeles Marathon, Wiggins and fellow French wheelchair racer Philippe Couprie made a pact that they would finish together, thus causing the first dead heat in the history of the competition. He was the first person to break the 20-minute mark in the 10 km wheelchair race.

Wiggins retired from competitive sport in 1998 due to neck problems. Before his retirement, he was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Wiggins with Jeff Wiseman was responsible for establishing the Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race in 1990.

Achievements

1990: City to Surf Line Honours (first wheelchair) in a time of 35:38 1994: Equal Line Honours Los Angeles Marathon Line Honours Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race 1996 Represented Australia in the Wheelchair Demonstration Events at the 1996 Olympic Games. Represented Australia in the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. Line Honours Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race