Grant Sharman is a

wheelchair rugby Wheelchair rugby (originally murderball, and known as quad rugby in the United States) is a team sport for athletes with a disability. It is practised in over twenty-five countries around the world and is a summer Paralympic sport. The US na ...

player from

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

. He is also a member of the national team, the

Wheel Blacks The Wheel Blacks are the national wheelchair rugby team of New Zealand. The team won the gold medal at the 2004 Paralympic games in Athens. The Wheel Blacks squad is made up from players from different regions around New Zealand. They include Au ...

. Sharman was part of the wheel blacks team that competed in the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

where they won the bronze medal.

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* * Paralympic wheelchair rugby players for New Zealand Wheelchair rugby players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for New Zealand Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in wheelchair rugby {{NewZealand-Paralympic-medalist-stub