George Hucks (born 18 January 1968) is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. Born in the South Australian town of Port Augusta he took up wheelchair rugby in 1994 and began playing for the Australian Steelers in 1995. During a practice in Atlanta before the 1996 Summer Paralympics Hucks the team's best player broke his kneecap. He was part of the national team at the 2000 Sydney 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Paralympics and won silver medals at the 2000 and 2008 games with the team. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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