Tom O'Neill-Thorne
Photo of Tom O'Neill-Thorne from the 2016 Australian Paralympic Team media guide | |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australia |
Born | (1997-04-08) 8 April 1997 (age 27) |
Sport | |
Position | Point guard |
Disability class | 3.0 |
Club | CD Ilunion |
Medal record |
Tom O'Neill-Thorne (born 8 April 1997) is a 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was part of the Rollers team that won the 2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at 2020 Summer Paralympics, his second Games. [1]
Biography
Tom O'Neill-Thorne was born on 8 April 1997, with arthrogryposis multiplex,[2] a congenital condition,[3] which he describes succinctly as: "my legs didn’t grow properly".[4] By the time he was two years old, he required a wheelchair,[2] but watching the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney on television, he decided that he wanted to become an athlete.[4]
Basketball
O'Neill-Thorne took up wheelchair basketball when he was nine, when a local competition was established. He became a member of the Queensland Junior team, then the development squad at the Australian Institute of Sport, and, in 2012, at age 14, of the Queensland Spinning Bullets in the National Wheelchair Basketball League, where he was coached by Tom Kyle.[2][3] As a 16 year old, in 2013, he averaged 17.1 points per game (eight in the league), 6.5 rebounds and 5 assists per game (sixth in the league).[5]
That year O'Neill-Thorne was selected for his first international tournament, with the U23 team (the Spinners) in Dubai, where the team won gold.[3] In 2013, he was part of the Spinners team at the IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Adana, Turkey, where they won bronze. Later that year he made his debut with the senior national team (the Rollers) at the 2013 Asia-Oceania Zone Championships in Bangkok, and the following year was part of the Rollers team that won gold at the 2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship.[5] He was the youngest ever Roller to play in a World Championship.[6]
By 2016, O'Neill-Thorne was averaging 25.86 points per game with the Spinning Bullets.[4] In June 2016, he toured Great Britain for the 2016 Continental Clash against Canada, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States.[7] The Rollers were defeated by the United States, and won silver.[2] In July, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[8] He was one of five Rollers selected for their first Paralympics [8] where they finished sixth.[9]
In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany where he averaged 14.5 points, four rebounds and three assists per game.[10]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4. [11] [12]
O'Neill-Thorne was awarded the Northern Territory Government Sportsperson of the Year at the 2017 Northern Territory Sports Awards.[13]
References
- ^ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Tom O'Neill-Thorne". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ a b c "Tom O'Neill-Thorne". Sport Australia Hall of Fame. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ a b c McGowan, Marc (20 July 2016). "Tom O'Neill-Thorne named in Australian Rollers squad for Rio Games". NT News. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ a b "The Future: Tom O'Neill-Thorne". National Wheelchair Basketball League. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Tom O'Neill-Thorne". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Australian Rollers Name Team for 2016 Continental Clash". Basketball Australia. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ a b "Australian Rollers ready for Rio 2016 revenge". Australian Paralympic Committee. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ^ "Hosts shock Rollers to end Rio campaign". Australian Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ "Rollers earn bronze at the 2018 World Championships". Basketball Australia website. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ^ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "Australian Paralympian awarded NT's highest sporting honour". Northern Territory Government Newsroom. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
External links
- Tom O'Neill-Thorne at Paralympics Australia
- Basketball Australia Profile
- Tom O'Neill-Thorne on Twitter
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