John Maclean (sportsperson), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Australian triathlete, rower and motivational speaker
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Place of Birth: Cook, New South Wales, Australia
About John Maclean (sportsperson)
- John Alexander Maclean, OAM (born 27 May 1966) is an Australian triathlete, rower, and motivational speaker.
- A promising rugby league player in his youth, he became a paraplegic after being knocked from his bicycle by a truck in 1988.
- He subsequently became the first paraplegic to finish the Ironman World Championship and the first to swim the English Channel.
- Later, he was part of the athletics team at both the Olympics and Paralympics in 2000, and won a silver medal in rowing at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
- In 2014, he completed the Nepean Triathlon without using a wheelchair, after regaining some use of his legs through Ware K Tremor therapy.
- He is the founder of the John Maclean Foundation, which assists wheelchair users under the age of 18.
- As a motivational speaker, his clients have included eBay and Pfizer.
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