Wayne Ryding is an English Paralympic swimmer, who was born in Wigan and initially competed for Australia. At the &lt;a href="1984%20Summer%20Paralympics"&gt;1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics&lt;/a&gt;, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m Freestyle 5 event, in which he set a new world record, and a silver medal in the Men's 400 m Freestyle 5 event. At the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's 400 m Freestyle 5 event. He then married an Englishwoman and moved to England. He represented England at the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, and represented Great Britain at both the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Paralympics; he won a bronze medal at the 2000 games in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke SB6 event.