 Leslie in 2009
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17 January 1990 Whangarei, New Zealand |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S5, SB3, SM4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | North Shore Swimming Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cameron Leslie MNZM (born 17 January 1990) is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer and wheelchair rugby player.
Career
Leslie was a student at Auckland University of Technology and has a quadruple limb deficiency.
He won the gold medal in the men's 150 m individual medley at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In 2013, he won the gold medal in the men's 150 m individual medley, and a bronze medal in the men's 50 m backstroke, at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's 50 m backstroke at the World Para Swimming Championships in London. Just prior to this, he helped New Zealand's wheelchair rugby team, the Wheel Blacks, claim a bronze medal at the IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship to qualify for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Leslie was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 New Year's Honours, for services to swimming.
Of Māori descent, Leslie affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi.
External links
- Cameron Leslie at Paralympics New Zealand (archive)
- Cameron Leslie at the International Paralympic Committee