Wayne Wesley Rainey (born October 23, 1960) is an American former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he won the 500cc World Championship three times and the Daytona 200 once. He was characterized by his smooth, calculating riding style.

September 2003 while leading the Italian Grand Prix on the Santamonica track in Misano Adriatico, Rainey fell hard. The crash broke his back, punctured a lung and left him paralyzed from the middle of his chest down. Rainey, 32, suffered damage to his sixth lumbar vertebrae.

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