Ben Lucas (wheelchair racer)

Benjamin Robert Lucas (born 1965) is a New Zealand sports administrator and retired wheelchair racer.

[1] In 1989 aged 24, he crashed his motorbike into a u-turning van[2] and broke his L3 lumbar vertebrae which left him paralysed.

He represented New Zealand at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in 800 m and the wheelchair marathon and won a bronze medal in the latter event.

[2] Lucas worked for Sports Marlborough where he organised the recreation programme for CCS (the Crippled Children Society).

[5] It was announced in September 2013 that Lucas would succeed Duane Kale as chef de mission for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.