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Place of Birth: Benalla, Victoria, Australia
About Mark Soyer
- Mark Soyer (born 24 April 1978) is an Australian para-alpine LW11 classified skier.
- He dealt with leukaemia twice as a child.
- At the age of 26, he severed his spinal cord during an accident while riding his motorbike on his parents' farm, and subsequently tried several different sports.
- Working as a manufacturing jeweller and gemologist in Melbourne, he has also been involved with para-skiing as a volunteer, and serving in administrative roles for various organisations.
- In 2007, he was a finalist for the Pride of Australia awards for courage. Soyer took up skiing following his accident after attending a camp in Australia.
- He then travelled to Colorado to attend another camp, before coming back to Australia to attend another camp.
- In 2007, he was ranked as Australia's second best sit-skier, and was in the top 50 skiers in the world.
- He attempted to make the 2010 Winter Paralympics.
- He earned bronze medals at skiing events in New Zealand in 2011.
- In 2012, he was a member of the Australian Paralympic skiing team, based out of the Australian Institute of Sports, and was trying to secure a spot for the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia.
- He represented Australia at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
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