LIESL TESCH AM, BSc., MP is an Australian wheelchair basketball player,
sailor and politician. She became an incomplete paraplegic after a mountain
bike accident at the age of 19. She competed in her national wheelchair basketball
team at five paralympics, winning three medals, and was the first woman to play
the sport professionally.
She took up sailing in 2010, winning gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016
Rio Paralympics with partner Daniel Fitzgibbon.
In April 2017, she was elected the member for Gosford in the New South Wales
Legislative Assembly at the Gosford state by-election.