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Ben
Wright

Para-powerlifting

Key Facts

Date of Birth
23 April 1987
Currently resides
Coodanup, WA
Start competing
2012
Australian debut
2013
Impairment
Physical Impairment – Spina bifida

Ben's Story

Triple Commonwealth Games representative and bronze medallist Ben Wright has perseverance and dedication in spades. The Perth-born athlete, the second Australian after Leigh Skinner to compete in powerlifting at three Commonwealth Games. Be made his debut at Glasgow 2014 where he finished 10th in the heavyweight division. A sixth-place finish on the Gold Coast four years later wasn’t the result he was hoping for after suffering a seizure when he was asleep 10 weeks before competition which resulted in compression fractures in four of his vertebrae. Ben, a full-time draftsman in WA, was born with spina bifida and competed in …

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