 2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Cole | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-01-15)15 January 1992 (age 33) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| College team | DC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gabriel Cole (born 15 January 1992) who has a partially formed left arm, is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He competed at the2010 Commonwealth Games and the2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics. He represented Australia at the2016 Rio Paralympics.[1]
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Cole was born on 15 January 1992[2] in Malvern, South Australia,[3][4][5] "with a partially formed left arm".[5][6][7] He attendedMercedes College[8][6][7] and was in year 12 in 2010.[5][7] Sports he played in his youth, before he took up athletics, included cycling, surfing, soccer and skate boarding.[5] As of June 2012[update], he was attending university and working on a course in architecture.[6]
Cole competes in theT46 classification.[2][6]
In June 2012, his personal best time in the 100 metres was 11.13sec, half a second off world record time.[6] He ran as a hobby, but took up the sport seriously in 2008 after his high school French teacher, Ellen Bailey, helped bring a talent scout to the school to watch him run.[4][6][7] In 2009, he had the fastest time in theT46 under-20 for the 100 metres.[7] He was running times in the 12 second range.[5]
At the 2010 National Championships in March, Cole finished third in the 100 metres event with a time of 11.49 seconds.[7] He competed at the2010 Commonwealth Games in the 100 metres event,[5][6][7][9] where he was one of only two South Australian competitors with a disability at the Games.[5] He had a torn hamstring but still managed to make the finals for the 100 metres event.[6] Going into the Commonwealth Games, he trained five days a week.[5]
In 2011, he had an athletics scholarship with theSouth Australian Institute of Sport.[10]
He finished first in his class in the 100 metres event at the 2012 Australian and German national championships.[4] Cole competed at the2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics in the 100 m T46 event but did not medal.[2][3][4][6][11][12][13]
At the2013 IPC Athletics World Championships inLyon, France, he won a silver medal in the Men's 100 m T46 event.[14] He came fifth in the 100m T47 at the2015 IPC Athletics World Championships inDoha.
At the2016 Rio Paralympics, he finished seventh in the Men's 100 m T47.[15]
