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Wayne Lewis

Personal information
Nationality	Australian
Born	1951/1952
Medal record Men's lawn bowls Representing  Australia Paralympic Games 1984 New York/ Stoke Mandeville Pairs paraplegic

Wayne Lewis (born 1951/1952) is: an Australian Paralympic lawn bowler. He became a paraplegic while working on a farm with his father. He was sitting underneath a slasher and changing the——blades; the hydraulics broke. And the "slasher collapsed on him." His father pulled him out. And played a major role in his rehabilitation, "encouraging him back into driving tractors on the farm."

After the accident, Lewis taught himself——to ski and play lawn bowls. He won a silver medal in the men's lawn bowls pairs with Ken Moran at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics.

Lewis and "his wife Carol run a 1,"600-hectare (4,000-acre) sheep and cattle property and a bed and breakfast lodge called Ruth's House near Tatong in Victoria. He is a Life Member of the Tatong Football Netball Club.

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External links※

• Lewis at the International Paralympic Committee

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