Brett Stibners

Brett Andrew Stibners, OAM[1] (born 25 June 1979) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player who won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship. He was a member of the Rollers team that competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his fourth Games.[2]

Brett Stibners
Portrait of Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketballer Stibners in 2012
Personal information
Full nameBrett Andrew Stibners
Nationality Australia
Born (1979-06-25) 25 June 1979
Sport
ClubWollongong Roller Hawks
Medal record
Wheelchair basketball
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Men's wheelchair basketball
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Men's wheelchair basketball
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Amsterdam Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Birmingham Team
Bronze medal – third place2018 HamburgTeam

Personal

Stibners was born on 25 June 1979, and is from the Wollongong suburb of Oak Flats.[3] He is a full-time athlete,[3] and is nicknamed Sticky.[3] His left leg was amputated above the knee after a car accident.[3][4] in 2001[5] when the car he was driving collided with a truck.[4][6] Prior to his accident, he worked as an apprentice electrician.[6]

Basketball
Great Britain vs Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at Gliders & Rollers World Challenge on 21 July 2012. Aussie 6 Brett Stibners and 9 Tristan Knowles. GB no 10 is Abdi Jama

Stibners is classified as a 4.0 player and is a forward.[7] He first started playing wheelchair basketball in 2003.[3] In 2010, he was the recipient of a A$10,000 grant by WorkCover NSW to enable him to worry less about money and prepare for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[4] He used the money to cover training and travel expenses, and to maintain his wheelchair.[4] He was at a press appearance announcing funding for Paralympic sport in March 2011. At the event, he played wheelchair basketball with then New South Wales Premiere Kristina Keneally.[5]

National team

Stibners first represented Australia on the national level in 2006.[3]

Paralympics
Stibners at the 2012 London Paralympics

Stibners was part of the gold medal-winning Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[8] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[9] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he was part of the Australian men's wheelchair team that won silver.[10] In 2016, he was selected for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro[11] where his team, The Rollers, finished sixth.[12]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4.[2][13]

Other competitions

In 2003, Stibners was a member of the national squad that competed at the Gold Cup in Amsterdam. This was his first international appearance.[3] In 2007, he was part of the gold medal-winning team at the Arafura Games.[7] In 2009, he was part of the national squad that won gold at the Rollers World Challenge and the team that won gold at the Paralympic World Cup held in Manchester, England.[7] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[14][15] that won a gold medal.[16] In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in Hamburg, Germany.

Club basketball

Stibners started playing club basketball in 2002 for the Wollongong Roller Hawks of Australia's National Wheelchair Basketball League. He is classified as a 4.0 player and plays as a forward.[14] In 2003, he won a league championship with the team.[6] In 2007, he played club basketball in Spain for CD Fundosa Group.[7] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with Wollongong Rollerhawks.[17] As of 2011, he plays his club basketball for the NWBL's Wollongong Roller Hawks. His team beat the Perth Wheelcats in the 2011 NWBL Championship. In the semi-final round, he scored 26 points and had 18 rebounds. In the finals, he had 23 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists.[18]

Hockey

Stibners named as a member of the Australian national indoor hockey team[3] prior to his 2001 accident.[5][6]

Recognition

Shellharbour City gave him a key to the city in 2008.[6]

References
  1. "Stibners, Brett Andrew". It's an Honour. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  2. "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. "Brett Stibners". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  4. "WorkCover scholarships helping Paralympic athletes fulfil their dreams" (PDF). Work Cover New South Wales. 10 November 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  5. "Premier relives schoolgirl glory days on basketball court". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, Australia. 9 March 2011. Archived from the original on 29 August 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  6. Arnold, Alex (19 December 2008). "Talented sportsman given key to Shellharbour". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  7. "Brett Stibners". Basketball Australia. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  8. McGarry, Andrew (4 September 2008). "Event guide: Wheelchair basketball". ABC. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  9. "Basketball Chronology". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  10. "Men's Wheelchair Basketball Results". London 2012 Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  11. "Australian Rollers ready for Rio 2016 revenge". Australian Paralympic Committee. 19 July 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  12. "Hosts shock Rollers to end Rio campaign". Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2 October 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  13. "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  14. "Basketball Australia : 2010 WC Team". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  15. "Newsletter 2010 July 2010". Australian Athletes With a Disability. July 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  16. "Rollers Int History". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  17. "FOUR NSW TEAM REPRESENTATIVES NAMED IN ROLLERS TEAM TO PLAY ENGLAND" (PDF). New South Wales Basketball. 29 June 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
  18. "Wollongong Roller Hawks claim 2011 NWBL Title". Basketball Australia. 19 August 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
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