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Australia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics; IPC code: AUS: NPC: Paralympics Australia: Website: www.paralympic.org.au: in Tokyo; Competitors: 179 [1] in 18 sports: Flag bearers : Opening - Ryley Batt and Daniela di Toro Closing - Ellie Cole: Medals Ranked 8th: Gold 21 Silver 29 Bronze 30 Total 80: Summer Paralympics appearances
Daniela di Toro and Ryley Batt at the announcement that they would jointly carry the Australian flag in the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Paralympics. Australia sent its largest away team - 179 athletes to a Summer Paralympics. Australia finished eighth on the gold medal table and sixth on the total medals table.
The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities.
Paralympics Australia (PA) previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) (1998–2019) [1] is the National Paralympic Committee in Australia for the Paralympic Games movement. It oversees the preparation and management of Australian teams that participate at the Summer Paralympics and the Winter Paralympics .
In November 2020, Jordaan became the first Australian female T46/47 sprinter to run the 400m in under 60 seconds, clocking a time of 59.69" at the Australian Institute of Sport. In 2019, she was one of five Australian Para-athletes from New South Wales to be the first recipients of the Kurt Fearnley Scholarship.
The International Paralympic Committee anticipated that the 2020 Summer Paralympics would be seen by a global audience of at least 4.25 billion viewers, an increase over the estimated 4.1 billion of the 2016 Games. [65] Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) provided live broadcasts for 19 of the 22 sports, an increase from 16 in Rio. [66]
Rowan Crothers (born 24 October 1997) is an Australian freestyle swimmer. [1] He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, 2020 Tokyo Paralympics and 2024 Paris Paralympics. [2] [3] He won two gold and one silver medals at the Tokyo Paralympics and two silver and one bronze medals at Paris Paralympics. [4]
Corey Anderson (born 25 May 2000) is an Australian para-athlete who competes in the F38 category in throwing events. [1] He won the gold medal in the Men's Javelin F38 at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai. He represented Australia at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics and the 2024 Paris Paralympics. [2]