Ness Murby
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Full name | Ness Ashby Murby |
Born | Melbourne, Australia | 4 October 1985
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
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Country | ![]() |
Sport | Para-athletics |
Disability | Hyperferritinemia |
Disability class | F11 |
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Ness Ashby Murby (born 4 October 1985) is a Canadian Paralympic athlete who competes in discus throw and javelin throw.[1][2][3][4]
Career[]
Murby has competed in goalball, powerlifting and para-athletics, and has represented Australia, Japan and Canada.[5] He competes in the F11 disability class.[5] Representing Canada, Murby won a silver medal in javelin throw and a bronze medal in discus throw at the 2015 Parapan American Games.[6] Competing in javelin throw, he won a silver medal at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, coming sixth in discus throw at the intervening 2016 Summer Paralympics[5] and at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.[7] Murby participated in the second season of the AMI documentary series Mind Set Go in 2019.[8] In November 2020, he came out as genderqueer and transmasculine.[5][9]
Personal life[]
Murby was born on 4 October 1985 in Melbourne, Australia.[7] He was born with limited eyesight, which deteriorated while he was a teenager, and is now blind.[8][10] Murby lives in Vancouver with his wife Eva Fejes, who met him in Japan.[10] Murby uses he/him pronouns.[11]
References[]
- ^ Murby, Ness [@nessmurby] (9 November 2020). "I am. Ness Ashby Murby [...]" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "Ness Murby - IPC Athlete Bio". Infostrada Sports. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "Our Team - Ness Murby". Athletics Canada. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "The Power and the Story". Kingston Life. Vol. 13 no. 8, November/December 2011. 1 November 2011. ISSN 1488-5239. OCLC 1082716265.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d Zeigler, Cyd (9 November 2020). "Paralympian Ness Murby comes out publicly as trans". Outsports. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Padgett, Donald (10 November 2020). "Paralympian Champion Ness Murby Comes Out as Trans". Out. ISSN 1062-7928. OCLC 1030856637. Archived from the original on 10 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Murby". Canadian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ a b Davidson, Sonya (1 February 2019). "Interview with Mind Set Go Paralympian Ness Murby". Toronto Guardian. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Factora, James (11 November 2020). "This Transmasculine, Genderqueer Athlete Could Be the First to Compete in the Paralympics". them. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ a b Heroux, Devin (18 November 2020). "For Ness Murby, coming out as a trans athlete is about helping others — all while making Paralympic history". CBC. Archived from the original on 20 November 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ Murby, Ness. "Ness Murby (he/him) (@NessMurby)". Twitter. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Paralympic track and field athletes of Canada
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Genderqueer people
- Transgender and transsexual sportspeople
- Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games
- LGBT sportspeople from Canada
- Canadian discus throwers
- Canadian javelin throwers
- Non-binary sportspeople
- LGBT track and field athletes
- Canadian track and field athletics biography stubs