Bruno Moretti (Paralympian)
 Moretti (fourth from left) at the 50-year reunion of the 1960 Australian Paralympic Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 November 2021 (aged 80) Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bruno Moretti (1941 – 1 November 2021) was an Australian Paralympic competitor.
Moretti was born in Ivanhoe, Victoria in 1940. His spine was dislocated while he was being delivered at birth, four hours after his twin brother.[1][2]
He won a silver medal in men's class b table tennis at the 1960 Rome Paralympics with Bill Mather-Brown.[3][4]
At the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, Perth, Western Australia, he won four gold medals – basketball, weightlifting and table tennis (two) and three bronze medals in athletics.
At the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, he won a gold medal in the Men's Slalom A event and two silver medals in the Men's 100 m Wheelchair A and Men's 4x40 m Relay open events; he also participated in table tennis events and in the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team.[4][5] He coached Australia's wheelchair basketball team at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics.[6]
Moretti was a founding member of Disability Sport & Recreation and contributed significantly to the disabled sports movement after his retirement from competition.[7] He was awarded life membership in 1993.
He was married to Scarlette, and had one son, Domenico. Moretti died in Melbourne on 1 November 2021, at the age of 80.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "From Trauma to Rehabilitation and Elite Sport:" (PDF). Clearinghouse for Sport. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "PA Saddened By The Loss Of Paralympic Pioneer". Paralympics Australia. Archived from the original on 3 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ International Paralympic Committee; Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee (2000). Paralympic Games results : Rome 1960 to Atlanta 1996. Sydney, Australia: Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee. p. 559. OCLC 223030936.
- ^ a b "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ^ Labanowich, Stan; Thiboutot, Armand. "Team Rosters:Paralympic Games (Men) 1960–1980" (PDF). Wheelchairs Can Jump. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ Labanowich, Stan; Thiboutot, Armand. "Team Rosters:Paralympic Games (Men) 1984–2008" (PDF). Wheelchairs Can Jump. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
- ^ "Photo of Bruno Moretti with trophies, 1960s". Victorian Collections. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
- ^ "MORETTI, Bruno". My Tributes. 5 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
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[edit]- 1941 births
- 2021 deaths
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic table tennis players for Australia
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia
- Table tennis players at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Sportsmen from Victoria (state)
- Australian male wheelchair racers
- People from Ivanhoe, Victoria
- Sportspeople from Melbourne
- 20th-century Australian sportsmen