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Australia entered 12 athletes for the Paralympic games. Six of them qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, through the 2023 Oceanian Championships in Honiara, Solomon Islands; [22] meanwhile the other athletes qualified through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking. Men
Athletics events have been held at every Paralympic Games. At the end of the Beijing Games, athletics was Australia's most successful medal sport. Since 2001, Athletics Australia has the responsibility of preparing the Australian athletics team for the Paralympic Games. . [1] Notable Australian athletes include:
At the Opening Ceremony, the Paralympic flame was lit by Louise Sauvage, one of Australia's biggest Paralympic athlete. Sauvage and Tim Sullivan both competed in this games and found outstanding success in their individual events. Sullivan is Australia's most successful athletics athlete at a single Games, winning five gold medals in Sydney ...
Milestones in the development of the Australian Paralympic movement and Paralympics Australia: 1960 – Australia participated in the 1st Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy. The Australian team of 12 athletes won three gold, six silver and 1 bronze medals. 1962 – Perth hosted the 1st Commonwealth Paraplegic Games. It was the first international ...
Australia participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. It 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.
She is classified as a T33 athlete. She started competing in athletics at the age of eight. She competes in track and throws events. At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham, England, she finished fifth in the Women's 100 m T34.
South Australia [9] Brad Ness: 1 2 0 Wheelchair Basketball 2004, 2008, 2012: Western Australia [9] Andrew Newell: 0 0 2 Athletics 2000: New South Wales [9] Richard Nicholson: 0 2 1 Powerlifting 2000, 2004, 2012 [9] Lynette Nixon: 1 1 1 Cycling 2000 [9] James Nomarhas: 0 1 0 Shooting 1996: New South Wales [9] Shaun Norris: 1 2 0 Wheelchair ...
Australia won four Winter Paralympic medals in 1992—one gold, a silver and two bronze. Michael Milton , an amputee alpine skier, won gold in slalom and silver in super-G. David Munk , a paraplegic sit-skier, won bronze in super-G. Michael Norton , a paraplegic sit-skier, won bronze in the downhill. [ 12 ]