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Australian wheelchair rugby player

Ryley Batt, OAM (born 22 May 1989)^[1] is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He has won two gold, one silver medal and one bronze medal at six Paralympic Games.^[2]

Biography

Ryley Douglas Batt was born on 22 May 1989 without legs and had surgery to separate his webbed fingers.^[1][3] Up to the age of twelve, he did not use a wheelchair, preferring to move around on a skateboard.^[1]

He was convinced to use a wheelchair when he saw a demonstration of wheelchair rugby at his school, and took up the sport shortly afterwards in that year.^[1] He first participated in the Australian Steelers in 2002.^[4] He was part of the national team at the 2004 Athens Games, where he was the youngest Paralympic rugby player in the world at the age of 15,^[4] the 2008 Beijing Games, where the team won a silver medal,^[5] and the 2012 London Games, when the t