Bruno Moretti (1941 – 1 November 2021) was an Australian Paralympic competitor.
 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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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.