Paul Mitchell (athlete)


Paul Graham Frederick Mitchell, OAM is a Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability from Western Australia, Australia.

Athletics career

At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain, he won a silver medal in the Men's 1500 m.
Competing at the 1994 IPC Athletics World Championships, he won a gold medal in the Men's 800 m T20. At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships, he competed in two events winning a silver medal in the Men's 5000m T20 and twelfth in the Men's 1500 m T20.
He won a gold medal, with a personal best, at the 2000 Sydney Games in the men's 1500m T20 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. In 2000, he was a carpenter.