Donald "Don" James William Elgin is an Australian Paralympic amputee athlete who won four medals at three Paralympics.
Background
Elgin was born on 19 December 1975 in the Victorian town of Donald. He was born without a left leg and a left thumb, with small toes, and webbed fingers on both hands. His malformed left foot was amputated shortly after he was born and he had open heart surgery at the age of three.
Career
He was raised in the New South Wales town of Tocumwal, and competed in athletics and swimming as a teenager. He also works as a motivational speaker both in Australia and around the world. Elgin first participated in sports for people with disabilities at the 1990 New South Wales Amputee Championships.
He participated without winning any medals at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics and came fourth in the pentathlon At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham.
He was coached by Roy Boyd, Cath Woodruff, John Eden, De Jennings, and Peter Negropontis. He held a scholarship from the Victorian Institute of Sport for 12 years.
He is the team manager for the Australian Paralympic Athletics Team.