Christopher Mullins
Appearance
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Full name | Christopher James Mullins | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria | 23 November 1986|||||||||||||||||
Education | St. Bernard's College (Essendon) (Essendon, Victoria, Australia) | |||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | La Trobe University | |||||||||||||||||
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Club | Preston Athletics Club | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Christopher "Chris" James Mullins, OAM[1] (born 23 November 1986)[2] is an Australian Paralympic cerebral palsy track and field athlete.[2] He won a gold medal and broke the world record at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m T35-38 event,[3] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Mullins completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree in 2010 at La Trobe University. He is currently working as a registered nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. One of Mullins' great passions is the Essendon Football Club.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)". ABC News. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
- ^ a b Media guide : Beijing 2008 (PDF). Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ^ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 5 October 2011.
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- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Cerebral Palsy category Paralympic competitors
- Living people
- 1986 births
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Australian male sprinters
- Athletes from Melbourne
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
- Australian athletics biography stubs
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