Brant Garvey (born 9 January 1985) is an Australian leg amputee

paratriathlete Para triathlon is a variant of the triathlon for athletes with a physical disability. The sport is governed by World Triathlon (TRI) (formerly known as ITU), and was first held as a Paralympics, Paralympic event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio ...

. He represented Australia at the

2016 Rio Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

when paratriathlon made its debut at the Paralympics.

Personal

Garvey was born on 9 January 1985 in

Darwin, Northern Territory Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory. It is the smalle ...

. He is a congenital above the knee amputee. His sister was diagnosed with three types of cancer at the age of fourteen and this has inspired Garvey to accept sporting challenges. He lives in

Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

. He is the founder of noXcuses, an Australian apparel company for triathletes and fitness enthusiasts. Garvey is married to Natalie.

Career

Prior to taking up paratriathlon, Garvey was a successful swimmer and wheelchair basketballer. He competed in wheelchair basketball for Australia at the

2002 FESPIC Games The 2002 FESPIC Games, officially known as the 8th FESPIC Games, was an Asia-Pacific disabled multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from 26 October to 1 November 2002, 12 days after the 2002 Asian Games. It was one of the two FESPIC Games ...

held in Korea. He was a member of the Perth Wheelcats that won five Australian Wheelchair Basketball Championships and has played professional wheelchair basketball in Spain for two years. He has completed

Rottnest Channel Swim The Rottnest Channel Swim is an annual open water swimming event from Cottesloe Beach through Gage Roads to Rottnest Island, off the coast of Western Australia, near Perth. Format The distance is and it is one of the largest open water s ...

five times. At the age of twenty-eight, he decided to try and run for the first time using a prosthetic leg and his first event was the HBF Run for a Reason over 12 km. In 2013, he completed an

ironman triathlon An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a swim, a bicycle ride and a marathon run completed in that order, a total of . It is widely consider ...

consisting of a 3.8 km swim, a 180 km bike ride and a 42.2 km marathon run. He finished in a time of 11:49:20 and became the first Australian above-knee amputee to complete an ironman triathlon. Garvey is classified as a PT2 paratriathlete. Garvey's first major international event was the 2013 ITU Grand Final in London where he finished sixth. In 2016, he qualified Australia a quota place in the

by finishing second at

International Triathlon Union World Triathlon, previously known as the International Triathlon Union (ITU), is the international governing body for the multi-sport disciplines of triathlon, duathlon, aquathlon and other nonstandard variations. World Triathlon hosts the top ...

event on the

Gold Coast, Queensland The Gold Coast is a coastal city in the state of Queensland, Australia, approximately south-southeast of the centre of the state capital Brisbane. With a population over 600,000, the Gold Coast is the sixth-largest city in Australia, the nati ...

. In May, 2016, he finished second in the Yokohama ITU World Paratriathlon PT2 Event. In 2016, he is a Western Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder and coached by Ross Pedlow. In 2016, he was awarded the Western Australian Institute of Sport Personal Excellence Award for his efforts in setting up and flourishing personal branding business, titled noXcuses.

World Triathlon Grand Final (Championships) Results

* 2013 London - 6th TRI-2 * 2014 Edmonton - 6th PT2 * 2015 Chicago - 6th PT2 * 2017 Rotterdam - 8th TS2

Oceania Championships

* 2014 Sydney - 1st PT2 * 2015 Sydney - 1st PT2 * 2016 Devonport - 1st PT2

Paralympics

* 2016 Rio - 10th PT2 In 2016, Garvey competed in the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games and placed 10th in the Men's PT2 event. Reflecting on his performance, Garvey states "I was in excruciating pain, dropped a few swear words, lucky they (the Brazilian fans) don't speak English as a first language. I didn't think I was going to be able to run but managed to get into a bit of a rhythm and finished my first Paralympic Games."

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