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Paralympics Games representation: Eight - Daniela di Toro (tennis / table tennis); Seven – Angie Ballard (athletics); Six - Lei Li Na (table tennis), Tristan Knowles (wheelchair basketball), Shaun Norris (wheelchair basketball), Ryley Batt (wheelchair rugby) Ben Weekes (wheelchair tennis) [27] Sixty one athletes made their Paralympic Games debut.
Australian Paralympic Committee announced a team of 44 athletes on 2 August 2016. [17] An additional two athletes - Tamsin Colley and Jessee Wyatt were added after the Russian suspension. [ 14 ] Emily Tapp was selected but forced to withdraw after a burnt leg did not heal in time for the Games.
Australian athlete Jodi Willis stands at the podium after winning the Women's Shot Put B2 event at the 1992 Summer Paralympics. See also: Goalball at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Goalball is the only Paralympic team sport for vision-impaired athletes and has been part of the competition program since 1976.
Action shot of Willis-Roberts throwing the discus at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. Willis-Roberts was born in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. [3] She first competed at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics with the Australia women's national goalball team, when it finished seventh.
Australian Paralympic team members are checked on arrival at the airport in Tokyo for the Tokyo Paralympics. Paralympics Australia required all Australian athletes and officials to have a COVID-19 vaccination to be considered for selection, whereas the Australian Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee only strongly ...
The 2012 Australian Paralympic team had 161 athletes, 90 men and 71 women, competing in 13 sports. [4] About half the team attended their first Games. [ 6 ] Shooter Libby Kosmala , at the age of 70, was Australia's oldest competitor. [ 7 ]
Shooting has been included in the Summer Paralympic Games from the 1976 Games. Australia has been represented at each Games since 1976. Notable Australian athletes: Elizabeth Kosmala, a wheelchair athlete, has won 12 shooting medals (9 gold and 3 silver medals). Kosmala has been selected in the team for London Games. It will be her 11th ...
At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, she finished sixth in Women's Shot Put F34 and fourth in the Women's Javelin F34. She broke Australian and Oceania records in the javelin event. [4] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Javelin throw F34 and finished ninth in the Women's Shot put F34. [5]