Paul M W Benz, OAM (born 9 January 1986) is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in

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. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4 × 100 metre relay T35–T38 event, for which he received a

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. He was also part of two gold-medal relay teams in the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships at

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. 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 (believed to by now number in the dozens) in tow.

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Paralympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics 1986 births Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Australian male sprinters Athletes from Adelaide Sportsmen from South Australia 21st-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-Paralympic-medalist-stub