Michael Joseph Norton, OAM[1] (22 April 1964 – 22 August 1996) was an Australian Paralympic alpine skier.

As a paraplegic sit skier, he won two gold medals at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Paralympics.

[3] In February 1984, on the way home from work on his motorbike, he hit a rock and came off the bike near Foster in South Gippsland and became paralysed.

[2] Norton pushed his wheelchair from Melbourne to Mount Buller to raise funds to purchase specialised equipment.

This was followed by his appearance at the 1990 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships in Winter Park, Colorado.

[4] At the 1992 Tignes-Albertville Winter Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Slalom LW11 event.

[6] During training in the days preceding the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Paralympics, he had a crash that resulted in him being unconscious.

He came out strongly against Australian sport administrator Arthur Tunstall who stated that it was embarrassing to have disabled athletes at the 1994 Commonwealth Games.