Jamie Beadsworth


Jamie Beadsworth is an Australian water polo player who competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jamie had a stroke April 1, 2011 after being kicked in the neck accidentally at a National Water Polo League game. Jamie claimed to feel a little uneasy and assumed he was concuss so his partner Leah drove him straight from the game to hospital where neurosurgeons determined he had in fact suffered a stroke. With no preexisting conditions or family history of heart failure/issues, the stroke was dubbed a freak accident, Beadssworth stating, "I was more concerned that my health was 100 per cent rather than my water polo future,".
Competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics ranking 8th and again in the 2012 Summer Olympics ranking 7th