[3][4] He was raised in the New South Wales town of Tocumwal,[1] and competed in athletics and swimming as a teenager.

[2] He participated without winning any medals at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics[8] and came fourth in the pentathlon at the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham.

[8] He came sixth in the pentathlon at the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships, where he was the Australian flag-bearer at the opening ceremony,[9] and commentated at that year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

[2][10] He retired from para-athletics in 2008, but made a comeback in 2013 after learning that the sport would be included in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

[9] He was coached by Roy Boyd, Cath Woodruff, John Eden, De Jennings, and Peter Negropontis.