Patrick Cooper

{{Short description|New Zealand para-alpine skier (born 1968)}} {{about||the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and director of the Bank of England|Patrick Ashley Cooper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Infobox sportsperson | name = Patrick Cooper | image = | image_size = | caption = | full_name = | nickname = | nationality = {{NZ}} | club = | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1968}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's para alpine skiing}} {{MedalCountry | {{NZL}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}} {{MedalGold | 1992 Tignes/Albertville | Slalom LW4}} {{MedalGold | 1992 Tignes/Albertville | Super-G LW4}} {{MedalGold | 1994 Lillehammer | Slalom LW4}} {{MedalGold | 1994 Lillehammer | Super-G LW4}} {{MedalSilver | 1988 Innsbruck | Slalom LW4}} {{MedalBronze | 1994 Lillehammer | Giant Slalom LW4}} }}

'''Patrick Cooper''' (born 1968) is a winter Paralympian from New Zealand who competed in the Paralympic Winter Games in 1988, 1992 and 1994 in the para alpine skiing.

== Career == Cooper made his first appearance at the Winter Games in Innsbruck 1988. He competed in the Men's Slalom LW4 event where he won a silver medal.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Patrick Cooper #55 - Para alpine skiing - Paralympics NZ|url=https://paralympics.org.nz/paralympians-profiles/patrick-cooper-55/|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Paralympics New Zealand|language=en-NZ}}</ref>

In his second Winter Game, the Albertville 1992 Paralympic Winter Games, he won 2 gold medals for New Zealand from the Men's Slalom LW4 and Super-G LW4 event.<ref name=":0" />

In Lillehammer 1994 Paralympic Winter Games, Cooper managed to grab 3 medals for his country, gold in Men's Slalom LW4 and Men's Super-G LW4 and a bronze medal in the Men's Giant Slalom LW4 event.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-10|title=Flashback: Patrick Cooper, New Zealand's most decorated winter Paralympian - 1988, 1992 & 1994|url=https://paralympics.org.nz/news/flashback-patrick-cooper-new-zealands-most-decorated-winter-paralympian-1988-1992-1994/|access-date=2021-04-27|website=Paralympics New Zealand|language=en-NZ}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist|1}}

== External links == * {{Paralympics New Zealand|patrick-cooper-55}} * {{IPC athlete|patrick-cooper}}

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