Mr Roy 'Chook' Fowler

In 1963, Roy Fowler lay in Princess Alexandra Hospital a quadriplegic. 

A professional boxer at 14, a drover during the Great Depression, a gunner in the Australian Army in World War Two and later a professional wrestler, he suffered a brain haemorrhage at 42. 

But barely a year later, he won three gold medals in swimming and a silver in archery - at the same Paralympics in Tokyo and a sporting career like few others began. 

He represented Australia in six Paralympics and won 10 Paralympic medals - in three different sports. Swimming and archery in 1964-68-72-76 and again in lawn bowls in 1984-88. 

Archery was his first love and at one stage, he was ranked world top 20 in able bodied competition. 

A legend and a larrikin of wheelchair sport, he won more than 100 medals in national and international competition before his death in 2002 aged 82. Roy 'Chook' Fowler was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame Inductee in 2020.