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clarke rose , at the 2000 summer paralympics faces his opponent , great britain 's ian 231000 - 3b - sydney 2000 match photo.jpg - judo anthony clarke fights ian rose 6 anthony clarke -lrb- judoka -rrb-
 anthony laurence clarke
anthony clarke -lrb- judoka -rrb-

anthony laurence clarke , oam -lrb- born 1961 in adelaide -rrb- is an australian judoka .
blind since 17 he became a paralympic judo gold medallist in 1996 , for which he received a medal of the order of australia , was world blind judo champion -lrb- in 1990 and 1998 -rrb- , and was an official torch bearer at the 2000 summer olympics .
in 2000 , he received an australian sports medal .
he has represented australia at five summer paralympics , from 1992 to 2008 , and wrote an autobiographical motivational book titled `` achieving the impossible '' .
he was an australian institute of sport scholarship holder from 1996 to 2000 in judo .
