 Simmons, 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Tige Arthur Simmons | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1977-05-05)5 May 1977 (age 48) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Rachel Simmons | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tige Arthur Simmons,OAM[1] (born 5 May 1977) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who representedAustralia in the2008,2012 and2016 Paralympic Games.
Tige Simmons became aparaplegic due to a motorbike accident.[2] He was part of the gold medal-winningAustralian men's national wheelchair basketball team[3] at the2008 Summer Paralympics,[4] for which he received aMedal of the Order of Australia.[1]
He was a member of the Australian Men's National Wheelchair Basketball team that competed at the2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[5][6] that won a gold medal.[7]
He plays as a guard and is classified as a 1.0 player.[5]
In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Brisbane Spinning Bullets.[8]
At the2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[9] In 2016, he was selected for the2016 Summer Paralympics inRio de Janeiro[10] where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth.[11]
