Jeremy Tyndall has received a call-up to the Australia squad for the Commonwealth Games
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Megan Fisher
The Goulburn Valley’s Jeremy Tyndall will pull on the green and gold at the upcoming 2026 Commonwealth Games as he prepares to represent Australia’s 3x3 wheelchair basketball team in Glasgow.
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Forming part of the Australian Wombats, the 30-year-old will traverse the 17,000km distance from the land down under to the garland spectacle in Scotland between July 23 to August 2.
Having grown up in Waaia, Tyndall has a wealth of experience to call upon at this year’s Games, having previously represented his country at the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, where he featured as his team finished in fifth place.
His sporting story began as a schoolboy, developing his love of basketball while shooting hoops with mates, before he suffered an accident back in 2012 which left him with paraplegia at the age of 16.
During his rehabilitation period, he was visited by Australian Rollers star Jannik Blair, who implored him to consider taking up wheelchair basketball.
“Mate, you need to get into wheelchair basketball, it’s a great sport,” the four-time Paralympian told the then-teenager.
Those words of wisdom from the one-time world champion proved prophetic.
The rest, you could say, is history.
Tyndall formed part of the Australian Spinners side that won bronze at the U23 World Championships in Canada in 2017, providing a springboard for his appearance at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo three years later.
Jeremy Tyndall previously appeared at the Paralympics in Tokyo back in 2020.
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Megan Fisher
The Australian contingent won three games in the Japanese capital, while falling to defeat on three occasions to improve on a sixth-place showing at the previous Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Some 3000 competitors will take part in the scaled-down Commonwealth Games on the banks of the River Clyde this year as athletes from 74 nations come together to showcase their talents across 10 core sports - six of which will feature para events.
In total, 215 gold medals will be awarded across the 10 days in what promises to be the biggest sporting event held in the United Kingdom this year.
This is the second time in just over a decade that Scotland’s largest city has been given the hosting rights, with Glasgow having also staged the Games back in 2014.
Originally, the state of Victoria was slated to host the multi-sport event before officials cancelled plans amid concerns over rising costs.
Now, Tyndall will have the opportunity to make their mark on one of the biggest stages in world sport, even if that won’t happen in front of a home crowd this year.
Alongside Luke Pople, Lachlin Dalton, and Jaylen Brown, he helped his country to qualify for Glasgow as part of the 3x3 squad that went unbeaten at the Oceania qualification tournament in Bangkok previously.
Speaking as his team earned a spot at the spectacle, head coach Ben Ettridge spoke with pride at the continued development of his players.
“It’s another step in the journey for the team. This group is very focused on repeating the success from the World Cup earlier this year and Birmingham 2022,” he said.
“It’s also such a valuable part of these guys development and maintains the legacy of the Australian men’s wheelchair basketball program.”
