![]() Clohessy and his cycling partner Darren Harry on the gold medal podium after winning the Men's Tandem Sprint Open at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
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Full name | Paul Clohessy | |||||||||||||||
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Born | 11 November 1970 Perth, Western Australia |
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Paul Clohessy, OAM(born 11 November 1970) is an Australian vision impaired tandem cyclist. He was born in Perth, Western Australia. He competed but did not win any medals at the 1992 Barcelona Games. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a silver medal in the Men's Individual Pursuit Tandem open event with Eddy Hollands. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Sprint Tandem open event with Darren Harry, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event with Hollands. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1997 and 2000 in cycling.