Matt Lewis (wheelchair rugby)

Matt Franklin Lewis OAM (born 8 January 1987) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player.

[3] In 2011, at the age of 24, he was severely injured when making a home made bomb using a gas cylinder.

[3][4] The bomb making operation went badly wrong and left him in an induced coma for just over a month.

[3] In 2013/14, he played for Seattle Storm in the USA national league for five months and won a number of MVP awards.

[8] He was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final.