Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race
Oz Day 10K Wheelchair Road Race is held on Australia Day in The Rocks, Sydney and is marquee event on the international wheelchair racing calendar, attracting prominent international and Australian athletes.
Sydney Rocks precinct where the annual OZ Day race is held
Kurt Fearnley racing at the Sydney Paralympics – a ten times winner of OZ Day 10k Wheelchair race
Louise Sauvage racing at the Sydney Paralympics – a ten times winner of OZ Day 10k Wheelchair race
Kurt Harry Fearnley, is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Fearnley
Fearnley waving to crowd at 2000 Sydney Paralympics
Fearnley racing at 2000 Sydney Paralympics
Fearnley racing at 2012 London Paralympics