Michael Auprince

Michael Auprince
2016 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Auprince
Personal information
Full nameMichael Auprince
Nationality Australia
Born (1993-02-21) 21 February 1993 (age 31)
Sport
Disability class4.0 point player
Medal record
Men's paralympic swimming
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 4 × 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 4 × 100 m medley
Men's wheelchair basketball
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Hamburg Team

Michael Auprince, OAM (born 21 February 1993) is an Australian swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. He set several swimming records and was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in swimming, where he won gold and bronze medals. He represented the Rollers team at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Michael is currently on the coaching staff of the University of Alabama Wheelchair Basketball team.

Personal

Michael Christopher Auprince was born on 21 February 1993,[1][2] and is from Peakhurst, New South Wales.[3] When he was ten years old, his left leg was amputated by choice; the limb had no muscles as a consequence of a congenital birth defect.[3][4][5] Prior to the surgery, he wore a prosthesis that gave his leg support.[5] In 2007, Banks MP Daryl Melham presented Auprince and sixteen other athletes a Federal Government sports achievement award.[5] He attended Peakhurst High School[5] and Georges River College at their Oatley Senior Campus.[3] In 2021, he is undertaking a Master of Information Management at Curtin University and a wheelchair basketball player[1]

Swimming

Auprince is an S9 classified swimmer.[1][6] He is a member of the Revesby Swimming Club and is coached by Mick Gauci.[4] He took up the sport in 2003 within six months of his leg being amputated.[1][4]

In 2007, Auprince trained with the Australian Paralympic development team at a training camp in Maroochydore, Queensland.[5] That year, he spent up to twelve hours a week and had broken several age and classification based national swimming records.[5] He first represented Australia in an international competition in 2009 when he competed in the 09 Canadian hosted CanAm Championships.[1] In 2010, he competed in the Sydney hosted State Age Championships, where he set two records including one in the 200 m record in the multi-disability event and the other an Australian record in the 100 m backstroke.[4] That year, he trained up to eleven times a week.[4] He competed at the 2010 IPC World Swimming Championships where he finished fifth in the 100 m backstroke.[1] He was the youngest member of the Australian team competing at the Dutch hosted 2011 IPC World Swimming Championships.[7]

In 2012, Auprince had four gym sessions and nine swimming training sessions a week.[3] He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in swimming.[6][8] In preparation for the Games, he participated in a sixteen-day Thailand-based team training camp. While there, he could not fully train as he had to deal with a case of food poisoning.[3] He was scheduled to attend a training camp ahead of the Games in early August in Wales.[3]

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won a gold in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and a bronze in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.[9][10] He also participated in the S9 class of the Men's 100 m Backstroke, 100 m Butterfly, 100 m Freestyle and 50 m Freestyle events – as well as the Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM9.[10] He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours "for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."[2]

Wheelchair Basketball

He is classified 4 point player and plays centre.

At the conclusion of the 2012 Paralympic Games, Auprince decided to play wheelchair basketball and was selected for the 2013 Under-23 World Wheelchair Basketball Competition in Turkey, where the team won the bronze medal.[11]

Auprince played in the United States for the Alabama Crimson Tide at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa 2015–2019. While playing with the Crimson Tide he won two College National Championships (2018 & 2019). He also played for the Wollongong Rollerhawks in the National Wheelchair Basketball League 2014–2018. in 2019 he switched things up to play with the Perth Wheelcats. In 2018, he was a member of the Rollers that won the bronze medal at 2018 Men's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Hamburg, Germany.[12] Auprince currently plays professionally in Germany with RSV- Lahn Dill.[13]

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, the Rollers finished fifth with a win–loss record of 4–4.[14][15]

Personal bests

Course Event Time Meet Swim Date Reference
Long 50 m Backstroke 29.83 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 20-Mar-12 [16]
Long 100 m Backstroke 01:04.3 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 15-Mar-12 [16]
Long 200 m Backstroke 02:26.6 2010 NSW State 13–18 Years Age 4-Jan-10 [16]
Long 50 m Breaststroke 37.28 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 22-Mar-12 [16]
Long 100 m Breaststroke 01:26.1 2011 MC Age Championships 9-Oct-11 [16]
Long 50 m Butterfly 28.7 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 17-Mar-12 [16]
Long 100 m Butterfly 01:05.1 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 21-Mar-12 [16]
Long 50 m Freestyle 26.9 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 16-Mar-12 [16]
Long 100 m Freestyle 58.81 2012 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships 19-Mar-12 [16]
Long 400 m Freestyle 05:39.3 2007 NSW State Open Championships 16-Feb-07 [16]
Long 200 m Medley 02:28.1 2011 MC Age Championships 7-Oct-11 [16]
Short 50 m Backstroke 29.75 2011 Australian Short Course Championships 3-Jul-11 [16]
Short 100 m Backstroke 01:02.9 2012 NSW Metropolitan SC Championships 14-Jul-12 [16]
Short 200 m Backstroke 02:20.4 2009 NSW Metropolitan SC Champ 27-Jun-09 [16]
Short 50 m Breaststroke 37.17 2011 Australian Short Course Championships 2-Jul-11 [16]
Short 100 m Breaststroke 01:22.6 2011 Australian Short Course Championships 3-Jul-11 [16]
Short 50 m Butterfly 30.08 2011 Australian Short Course Championships 3-Jul-11 [16]
Short 50 m Freestyle 26.82 2012 NSW Metropolitan SC Championships 14-Jul-12 [16]
Short 100 m Freestyle 59.91 2010 Telstra Australian Short Course 14-Jul-10 [16]
Short 200 m Medley 02:26.7 2011 Australian Short Course Championships 1-Jul-11 [16]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Michael Auprince". Australia: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2012. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Australia Day honours list 2014: in full". Daily Telegraph. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Carayannis, Michael (30 July 2012). "Swimmer aims for medal glory". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e Vella, Joanne. "Revesby Swimming Club's Michael Auprince breaks records at the State Age Championships". Canterbury-Bankstown Express. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Mulcair, John (22 September 2007). "Michael's eager to take on the world". St George & Sutherland Shire Leader. Retrieved 1 August 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ a b "Paralympic swim team revealed". Australian Paralympic Committee. 10 July 2012. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  7. ^ "Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association". Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  8. ^ "Cowdrey leads Paralympic swim team". ABC News. ABC Grandstand Sport – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 10 July 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  9. ^ "Michael Auprince – Athlete Results". London 2012 Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Michael Auprince". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
  11. ^ "Michael Auprince". Basketball Australia. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Rollers earn bronze at the 2018 World Championships". Basketball Australia website. Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Players – RSV Lahn-Dill". Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  14. ^ "Standards And Culture To Drive Revamped Rollers". Paralympics Australia. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Rollers end Tokyo campaign fifth". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Michael Auprince personal bests". Swimming Australia. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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