Warren Lawton

{{Short description|Australian Paralympic athlete}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=July 2012}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Warren Lawton

| image = 241000 - Goalball Warren Lawton penalty save - 3b - 2000 Sydney match photo.jpg

| caption = Lawton saves a penalty shot during a goalball game for Australia against Sweden at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|23 March 1966}}

| birth_place = Augathella, Queensland, Australia

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{{MedalSport|Athletics}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1984 New York|Men's High Jump B3}}

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Warren Lawton (born 23 March 1966) is an Indigenous Australian Paralympic athletics and goalball competitor with a visual impairment.

He was born on 23 March 1966 in Augathella, Queensland and has been visually impaired since birth.{{cite web |title=Warren Lawton |url=http://www.vibe.com.au/education/education-news/item/3135-warren-lawton.html |work=Deadly Vibe Group |accessdate=26 July 2012}} At the 1984 New York Games, he competed in three athletics events and won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump B3. He won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump at the 1986 World Championships for the Disabled, Gothenburg, Sweden. He competed in two athletics events at the 1988 Seoul Games.{{cite web |title=Warren Lawton |url=http://www.paralympic.org/Results |work=International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database |accessdate=26 July 2012}}

He was a member of the Australian Goalball Team at the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Games. He was one of the fastest goalball throwers in the world. His throw has been clocked on the police radar at 80 km per hour.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} After the 2000 Games, he took up coaching.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}

In 1986 he was awarded the NAIDOC Aboriginal Sportsman of the Year and in 2001 the NAIDOC Sportsperson of the Year.{{cite web |title=Award winners |url=http://www.naidoc.org.au/naidoc-awards/winners-profiles/ |work=NAIDOC Website |accessdate=26 July 2012}}