David Thomas Selby, OAM (born 29 May 1969) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was born in

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. He was part of the gold medal-winning

Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralymp ...

at the

1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympic Games, Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games ...

, for which he received a

Medal of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

. He was also part of the silver medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the

2004 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic ...

References

Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors Wheelchair basketball players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics 1965 births Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball {{Australia-Paralympic-medalist-stub