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World champion sportsman robbed Thief legs it after brazen crime at riverside park POLICE are hunting a brazen thief who swiftly legged it after robbing a world champion sportsman at a Queensland caravan park.
Associate Professor Burkett (pictured left), a sport lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, had his leg amputated after an horrific hit and run accident in 1985. His waterproof artificial leg was stolen from a boat while he was holidaying at the riverside park with his family. The former sportsman expects to have a replacement fibreglass leg by July. He retired from Paralympic swimming at the 2000 Sydney Olympics after becoming a Paralympian world champion, world record holder, Commonwealth Games and Australian multiple medallist. BACK TO CARAVANNING NEWS MAIN PAGE
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The heartless bandit escaped with former Paralympian
Brendan Burkett's $6000 artificial leg from the 135-site Noosa River
Caravan Park at Munna Point. 
