Peter Worsley

Peter Michael Worsley (born 9 January 1968) is an Australian sculptor and Paralympic shooter. He became a quadriplegic following a Rugby Union match during his first year at university. He competed at three successive Paralympic Games from 1996 as well as the 1994 FESPIC Games, European and World Shooting Championships in Spain and Korea, Swiss Open Championships, Oceania and other International and National shooting championships. Personal Worsley was born on 9 January 1968 in the New South Wales country town of Jerilderie. He developed his skill in shooting at the family farm in Inverell. He attended Inverell Public School and completed his high school education at Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School in Tamworth. While a student attending Wagga Wagga Agricultural College (which later became Charles Sturt University), he was injured in a scrum, suffered a broken neck, playing Hooker for the Wagga Wagga Agricultural College Rugby Union team. Following his injury, he spent eleven months in Prince Henry Hospital in Sydney. During his rehabilitation at the hospital he met Paralympic rifle shooter Allan Chadwick who inspired Worsley to take up the sport of target shooting. A classification system regulated and monitored by the International Paralympic Committee ensures that competition is fair and equal in Paralympic Sport. Worsley's classification SH2 rifle events, requires the athlete to use a sporting stand to support the rifle and does not exclude lower limb impairment. He competed in three events prone, standing and 3x40 (40 shots in each position kneeling, standing and prone) the difference being that both the athlete's elbows may be rested on a support in prone, one elbow for kneeling but no elbows in standing. Worsley completed his Honours Degree, Bachelor of Applied Science (Agriculture) at Charles Sturt University in 1991. He was the first student studying Agriculture to receive an Honours Degree, specializing in Remote Sensing. He continued his studies and in 1997, was admitted to the degree of Master of Rural Science, The University of New England, Armidale. He moved to the central west town of Orange in February 1992, to gain work experience with the Department of Agriculture. In August of that year he moved to Tamworth, accepted a position in the field of Bio Security with the Department of Agriculture, and has been employed in this field since 1992. While studying at University in Wagga Wagga he met Michelle.