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Frank Ponta (Francis Ettore Ponta) was born on 8 November, 1935 in Australia, is an Australian Paralympic athlete. Discover Frank Ponta's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November 1935
Birthday 8 November
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Date of death 1 June, 2011
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Nationality Australia

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1935

Francis Ettore Ponta (8 November 1935 – 1 June 2011) was an Australian Paralympic competitor and coach.

He competed in several sports including basketball, pentathlon, swimming and fencing.

A paraplegic, he lost the use of both his legs after a tumour was removed from his spinal column when he was a teenager.

Ponta was a member of Australia's first national wheelchair basketball team, and is credited with expanding the sport of wheelchair basketball in Western Australia.

At the end of his competitive career, he became a coach, working with athletes such as Louise Sauvage, Priya Cooper, Madison de Rozario, Bruce Wallrodt and Bryan Stitfall.

Ponta was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco on 8 November 1935, as the eldest of nine children.

1947

In 1947 he moved to Geraldton because his father had a job there in the building trade.

He attended Christian Brothers schools in Leederville and Geraldton.

At the age of fourteen or fifteen, he injured his back while diving off a wharf in Geraldton, which aggravated a tumour in his spinal column.

The tumour was diagnosed when he was 17 and after it was removed, he lost the use of both his legs.

1954

He entered the spinal injury ward at Royal Perth Hospital in 1954 for rehabilitation, where he was trained in sports by John "Johno" Johnston.

When Ponta began his competitive career, he played several sports, in common with most paraplegic athletes at the time.

He competed in basketball, pentathlon, swimming and fencing.

1956

Ponta was a member of the first national wheelchair basketball team for Australia, formed in 1956, mostly composed of players from the spinal injury ward of Royal Perth Hospital.

1957

In 1957, Ponta competed at the Stoke Mandeville Games, the precursor to the Paralympic Games.

He and teammate Bill Mather-Brown won a gold medal in Foil Novice team at the wheelchair fencing event.

In the same year, Ponta and Mather-Brown also competed at the Welsh Challenge Cup, where the pair also won gold.

1960

Ponta competed in five Paralympic Games, including the first one held in Rome in 1960.

As a Paralympic competitor, he won a gold medal, two silver medals and a bronze medal.

He competed in several sports including wheelchair racing, wheelchair fencing, swimming and wheelchair basketball.

At the 1960 Summer Paralympics, he competed in the Men's Precision Javelin, where he won a silver medal.

1962

He was a member of the Australian wheelchair basketball team at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth.

1964

At the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Ponta competed in Class 2 Men's swimming in the 25 m breaststroke event, where he failed to medal.

At those same games, he also competed in the class 2 Men's 25 m Freestyle Supine event, where he won a gold medal.

He also competed in wheelchair fencing at the 1964 Games in the Eppee Team event, where he did not medal, and the Men's Foil Novice Individual, where he won a silver medal.

1968

At the 1968 Tel Aviv Games, he competed in the Class 2 Men's 25 m Breaststroke event, where he failed to medal.

He also competed in the Men's 25 m Backstroke, where he won a bronze medal.

He also competed in the 100 m Wheelchair race, the pentathlon complete, precision javelin open, slalom a, and in the wheelchair basketball team.

He did not medal in any of these events.

1972

He competed without winning a medal at the 1972 Heidelberg Games in the discus, javelin, precision javelin, and the wheelchair basketball team.

1976

At the 1976 Toronto Games, he competed in the discus, javelin, pentathlon, precision javelin, and shot put events, and was also part of the wheelchair basketball team.

He did not medal in any of these events.

Ponta coached several medal winning Paralympic athletes including Louise Sauvage and Priya Cooper.

He was Sauvage's first coach, starting when Sauvage was a junior competitor.

Sauvage described Ponta's coaching style as patient.

Ponta was influential in developing junior wheelchair sports in Western Australia and the rest of the country.

Ponta pushed junior athletes to make something of themselves and put an emphasis on sportsmanship.

He is described by the Western Australian government as having devoted his life to the Wheelchair Sport Association as a coach and role model.

One of Ponta's coaching skills was identifying which events that junior athletes would excel at.

2011

He died on 1 June 2011 at the age of 75 after a long illness.