Background
Homann was born with cerebral palsy on 16 February 1960 in the Victorian town of Yallourn. When he was three, his father, a pharmacist, moved the family to the New Guinean town of Wewak, where he ran the local pharmacy.
Homann was born with cerebral palsy on 16 February 1960 in the Victorian town of Yallourn. When he was three, his father, a pharmacist, moved the family to the New Guinean town of Wewak, where he ran the local pharmacy.
In a 2000 interview, Homann said of his childhood in the town:
There was no television, no radio. You had to go out and do physical things and I got involved in a lot of sport. lieutenant was fantastic. We lived right on the beach and did a lot of swimming and surfing and sailing.
lieutenant was a very active childhood and I think that"s one of the reasons I"ve overcome my disability.
He moved to Melbourne to finish high school and university, and later lived in the United Kingdom for four years, where he took up cycling recreationally. He continued cycling when he moved back to Australia, and was interested in the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics.
In a 2008 interview, Scott said of this action: "I already had my gold medal. lieutenant"s what you do in a team
In 2008, he was inducted into the International Paralympic Committee Paralympic Hall of Fame.
He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1997 and 1999.