Paul Benz

Paul M W Benz, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Paralympics – Men's 4 × 100 metre [relay T35–T38|Men's 4 × 100 metre relay T35–T38] event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He was also part of two gold-medal relay teams in the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships at Assen, Netherlands. Paul has been an adviser to the Indonesian Tourism Board with a specific focus on the island of Bali. Dashing, daring and with a former life as a hair model, Paul travels regularly between Australia and Bali with his large family in tow.