Michael Ozanne


Michael Ozanne is an Australian wheelchair rugby player.
Ozanne lives in Upper Caboolture just outside Brisbane, Queensland. Ozanne injured his C6 vertebrae diving into a shallow canal as a 19-year-old. He took up wheelchair rugby after a demonstration of its brutality shortly after his accident. He made his debut for the Australian Steelers in 2013. He was a member of the Australian team that won its first world championship gold medal at the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships at Odense, Denmark.

At the 2018 IWRF World Championship in Sydney, Australia he was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal after being defeated by Japan 61-62 in the gold medal game.