Gerrard Gosens will compete in his first Commonwealth Games in Birmingham — and says it'll also be his last.
He's competed at three Paralympic Games and well over a dozen world championships — and climbed Everest, and danced with the stars, and launched a thriving business, and been awarded an OAM … the list goes on.
One of the oldest members of the Australian team in Birmingham, Gosens will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the men's PTVI triathlon.Gerrard Gosens ran the T11 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics.Para-triathlon for athletes who use wheelchairs made its Commonwealth Games debut in 2018 on the Gold Coast.
"It’s time to hang up the boots and support other athletes in their journey to come through and represent Australia," he says.He'll run, swim and tandem-bike the Sutton Park course with guide Hayden Armstrong, who he describes as a "very accomplished athlete in his own right".After a three-decade international representative career, Gosens says he's more motivated than ever to give it his all.
In March Gosens was in a serious bike accident that left him hospitalised for more than two weeks with multiple broken bones."Thankfully the Gold Coast University Hospital was kind enough to be aware of my pursuits and fast-track the recovery. I was able to jump off the hospital bed and straight back into training, and I’m 90 per cent back where I was before the accident."
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