Jayden Warn
Jayden Warn is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics as a member of the Australian Steelers.Biography
Warn was born 23 May 1994 and lives in Warragul, Victoria. At the age of 16, he was in a serious car accident as a passenger when a vehicle collided with the passenger side of the car leaving Warn with lifelong injuries. He shattered six vertebrates in his neck and back.
He made is debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013.
He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.
Warn was a member of the team that retained its gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics after defeating the United States 59–58 in the final.
At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, Australia, he was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal after being defeated by Japan 61-62 in the gold medal game.
In 2014, he was a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2017.
