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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
The original schedule was from 25 August to 10 September 2020. To postpone the Paralympics until 2021, all events were delayed by 364 days (one day less than a full year to preserve the same days of the week), giving a new schedule of 24 August to 9 September 2021. [5] All times and dates use Japan Standard Time
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 .
Australia would send athletes to every subsequent Paralympic Games, including the 1976 Winter Paralympics, although due to the organisers only allowing amputees, blind or visually impaired athletes, Australia's only representative skier Ron Finneran was unable to compete due to childhood Polio having impaired a leg and arm.
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.
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]
Athletics at the XVI Paralympic Games Athletics pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics Venue Tokyo National Stadium Dates 27 August – 5 September 2021 Competitors 1100 in 168 events from 129 nations ← 2016 2024 → Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in the National Stadium in Tokyo. There was 167 medal events: 93 for men, 73 for women and one mixed event. It was the ...
In 2019, she was one of five Australian Para-athletes from New South Wales to be the first recipients of the Kurt Fearnley Scholarship. [4] Jordaan competed in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She qualified for the final of the 400m T47 where she came 7th. She came 10th in her 100m T47 heat and did not advance to the final. [5]