Coaching Amputee Athletes. He held this position for five years before being promoted to head coach of the program in 1996. Nunn has stated that he was the first paid athletics with a disability coach in the world. He has directly coached notable Australian athletes – John Eden, Hamish MacDonald, Rodney Nugent and David Evans and advised many other leading Australian Paralympic athletes. He attended four successive Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2000 as an athletics coach and was head athletics coach at the 2000 Sydney Games. At the 2000 Games, the Australian athletics team won 35 gold, 15 silver and 16 bronze medals. In November 2000, he was appointed head coach of the Australian Institute of Sport Athletics program. Nunn's appointment resulted in the integration of athletes with a disability into the AIS Athletics program. In 2002, he was awarded a medal of the Order of Australia for services as a coach of athletes with a disability, particularly Australian Paralympic athletes. In 2003, Athletics Australia and the AIS decided to restructure the AIS program and appointed a high performance manager. Nunn's position was downgraded to senior throws coach and he subsequently left the AIS. Whilst at the AIS, Nunn played a significant role in establishing, developing and gaining acceptance of high performance programs for athletes with a disability. In 2004, he established a King's Swim School in the Canberra suburb of Macgregor. Nunn returned to high performance sport in 2009 when he was appointed manager of high performance, Australian Paralympic Committee. He still plays an active role in junior sport as a coach at Ginninderra Tiger Athletics. In November 2013, Nunn was appointed chef de mission for the Australian Team for the 2014 Sochi Winter Paralympics. He replaced Kate McLoughlin who stepped down due to family reasons. Recognition 1994, 1996, 1998 – Australian Coaching Council Individual Coach Award Finalist 1996 – Australian Coaching Council Eunice Gill Award 1998 – Australian Paralympic Coach of the Year Confederation of Australian Sport Dawn Fraser Award 1994 to 1996 – Chairman of the Athletics Committee of the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled 2000 – Australian Sports Medal 2002 – Medal of the Order of Australia 2003 – Rotary Clubs of Canberra and Woden Paul Harris Fellowship 2015 - ACT Sport Hall of Fame inductee References External links Chris Nunn interviewed by Mick Fogarty in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history