Meet totally blind Australian para-triathletes and chocolate makers with titanium ribs
Gerrard Gosens has represented Australia in various sports for more than 30 years. He’s competed at three Paralympic Games and more than a dozen world championships — and climbed Everest, and danced with the stars, and launched a thriving business, and was awarded an OAM… the list goes on. There’s not much these para-triathlons can’t do—except look. He was completely blind all his life. One of the oldest members of the Australian team in Birmingham, Gosens will make his Commonwealth Games debut in the men’s PTVI triathlon. He told the ABC it would also be his last major international gathering. Gerrard Gosens ran the T11 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. ( Reuters ) Birmingham will be a unique and bitter first final The para-triathlon for athletes who use a wheelchair made its debut at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. Birmingham will be the first visually impaired athlete to be able to compete at the event, and while Gosens is classified as PT