Although I am long retired, I still coach athletics as I believe athletics is a sport for everyone. I work with athletes from age 5 to over 60, including those with disabilities and those without. I am a level 4 combined event coach. I was a Paralympian for 16 years (1986 to 2000) and led the amputee squad for ten years.

My Fellowship was to study the integration of mainstream and athletes with a disability. In 2001 at the Don Valley Stadium I organised the first international combined event (I believe the only one ever) that fully integrated mainstream and athletes with a disability. This was a heptathlon over two days.

The result was impressive: an amputee below knee from Australia was 1st, a mainstream master aged over 45 was 2nd, an under-17 female athlete was 3rd and an athlete with cerebral palsy in his thirties was 4th.

The tables used for the competition were those developed by myself, Chris Nunn (Australian Head Coach), Chris Cohen and Dave Pryce and these were adopted for the Paralympic competitions. I had organised a trial match with only amputees in 1998 at Swindon. It proved it could be done.

It is my intention to organise a repeat of 2001 in 2023, the 20th anniversary of the opening of the DABSI stadium in Boston.