Grant Mizens
 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Mizens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Grant Karlis Mizens | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1977 Sydney, New South Wales | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grant Karlus Mizens, OAM[1] (born 19 April 1977)[2] is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He won one gold and two silver medals at the Summer Paralympics. In June 2025, he was appointed the President of Paralympics Australia. [3] As Paralympics Australia President, he became Vice President on the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Basketball
[edit]
He is classified as a 2.0 player and plays guard.[2]
National team
[edit]Paralympics
[edit]
He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team[4] that won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics,[5] and also part of the team that won a gold medal[6] at the 2008 Summer Paralympics,[5] 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.[7]
Other competitions
[edit]He was a member of the national team that competed at the 2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships.[8] He was a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team that competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship[2][9] that won a gold medal.[10]
Club basketball
[edit]Mizens played club basketball for the West Sydney Razorbacks.[2] In 2010, he was playing club basketball with the Wenty League Wheelkings.[11]
Personal
[edit]He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[12] Mizens in his final year of high school was involved in a car accident that led to paraplegia from the waist down.[13] Mizen has completed a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Illinois and is a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.[14]
In 2020, he was appointed to Paralympics Australia Board, in March 2023 elected vice president and in June 2025 was appointed President.[15] In 2024, he is Portfolio Manager at MLC Asset Management and a member of Sargood Foundation and Sargood Centre Boards.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)". ABC News. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Basketball Australia : 2010 WC Team". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ Zoe (26 June 2025). "Paralympics Australia Announces New President | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
- ^ "Results - ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games - Wheelchair Basketball - Men". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ a b "Basketball Chronology". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ McGarry, Andrew (4 September 2008). "Event guide: Wheelchair basketball". ABC. Archived from the original on 13 September 2008. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- ^ "Men's Wheelchair Basketball Results". London 2012 Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ "2009 IWBF Asia Oceania Championships". Basketball Victoria. Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "Newsletter 2010 July 2010". Australian Athletes With a Disability. July 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ "Rollers Int History". Basketball Australia. 2010. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Media guide : Athens 2004 (PDF). Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2004.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Board Members Archives". Sargood Foundation. 12 August 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Our Board | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Paralympics Australia Announces New President | Paralympics Australia". www.paralympic.org.au. 11 September 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- ^ Siljic, Jasmine. "MLC Asset Management expands investment team | Money Management". www.moneymanagement.com.au. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Illinois Fighting Illini Paralympic athletes
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Paralympics Australia officials