Guy
Henly

Guy Henly has earned his stripes as one of the Australian Para-athletics team’s most respected members, having won a medal at every World Para-athletics Championships since 2013.

In an exceptional start to his international career, Guy clinched bronze in the men’s discus F37/38 at the 2013 International Paralympic Committee Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France. It was a fiercely fought contest for bragging rights, and lit a fire in Guy’s belly to scale the podium at the next edition in Doha, Qatar, in 2015.

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, Guy threw a whopping 53.41m, getting his first taste of silver and taking another step towards achieving his goal of winning an international gold medal. His next opportunity came the following year at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games – however, it was not to be, and Guy had to settle for a commendable fourth place.

As only a champion does, he brushed himself off and returned to the World Championships podium in 2017 as the reigning back-to-back silver medallist, and went head-to-head with his F37 rivals once again at November’s 2019 World Para-athletics Championships, where he won bronze.

Guy was seven when he became eligible to compete in Paralympic sport, after a brain tumour permanently affected the movement (and his sight) in his right side. While he had hoped to pursue a career in tennis, a Talent Search Day hosted by Paralympics Australia in 2010 set him on the path to Para-athletics stardom.

At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Guy missed the podium to finish in fourth position with a top throw of 48.72m in the men’s discus F37 event.