1. Luke Cain started competing in 2007, as the sport suited his disability, and has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2008.
20 Facts About Luke Cain
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Luke Cain first represented Australia internationally in 2009 at a World Cup event in South Korea.
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Luke Cain has represented Australia in two Paralympic Games including the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
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Luke Cain started playing Australian rules football when he was seven years old for the Rye Football Club.
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Luke Cain played senior football for Rosebud Football Club as a full-forward.
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Luke Cain is a paraplegic, and requires use of a wheelchair because of paralysis that affects him from the chest down.
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Luke Cain has limited use of his fingers and no use of his hands.
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Luke Cain's cousin is Travis Cloke, an AFL All-Australian full-forward.
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Luke Cain has been an inspiration to his cousin on the football field.
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Luke Cain is an SH2-classified shooter competing in 10m air rifle prone and 10m air rifle standing events.
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Luke Cain has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2008, and is a member of the Springvale Range Club.
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Luke Cain is coached by Miro Sipek as an individual and when on the national team.
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Luke Cain took up the sport of shooting because it was one of the few available to people with his physical limitations.
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Luke Cain started competing in 2007, and made the Australian national team the same year.
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Luke Cain set a personal best of 598 out of 600 in the SH-2 prone air event at the 2010 World Cup in Germany, and not long after, set a new personal best when he shot 599 at the same event at the 2010 World Cup in France.
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Luke Cain came in first at the 2010 Oceania Shooting Federation Continental Championship.
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Luke Cain competed in the United States-hosted International Paralympic Committee World Cup in 2011, finishing fourth in the R5 Air Rifle Prone event with a score of 599.
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Luke Cain earned a gold medal in the team event with teammates Jason Maroney and Bradley Mark.
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Luke Cain competed in the Mixed 10 m air rifle standing SH2 and the Mixed 10 m air rifle prone SH2.
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Luke Cain did not medal, placing 26th in the standing event and 33rd in the prone event.