Cameron Leslie
Cameron Leslie is a New Zealand paralympics swimmer and wheelchair rugby player.
Leslie was a student at Auckland University of Technology and has a quadruple limb deficiency.
He won the gold medal in the men's 150 m individual medley at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics.
In 2013, he won the gold medal in the men's 150 m individual medley, and a bronze medal in the men's 50 m backstroke, at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal. In 2019, he won the gold medal in the men's 50 m backstroke at the World Para Swimming Championships in London. Just prior to this, he helped New Zealand's wheelchair rugby team, the Wheel Blacks, claim a bronze medal at the IWRF Asia-Oceania Championship to qualify for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Leslie was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2009 New Year's Honours, for services to swimming.
Of Māori descent, Leslie affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi.
