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Sport Australia provided funding to Paralympics Australia – $3,735,548 (2016/17), $5,019,780 (2017/18), $13,578,880 (2018/19), $8,634,280 (2019/20). [6] The 2021/22 Australian Government budget provided $3.5 million due to increased operational costs for the Australian Paralympic Team's participation in the Tokyo Paralympic Games due to the ...
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.
1998 – The Australian Paralympic Federation changed its name to the Australian Paralympic Committee. A new logo was created. [32] 2000 – Sydney hosted the 11th Summer Paralympics, the first Games held outside the Northern Hemisphere. Australia finished first on the medal tally winning 149 medals – 63 gold, 39 silver and 47 bronze medals.
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]
At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, she rode Mogelvangs Zidane and finished eighth in the Individual Championship Test Grade II and fifth in the Dressage Individual Team Test Grade II. She was a member of the Australian team together with Amelia White and Sharon Jarvis that finished 13th in the Team Competition. [9]
At the 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics held in 2021. [7] Clarke was a finalist in the Women's 100m T38 where she came 5th. She then came 7th in the Women's 400m T38 with a time of 1:02.65 which was an Australian record. [8] At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won the bronze medal in the women's 100m T38. [9]
In November 2020, at the Australian Virtual Short Course Championships, she set a world record in the Women's 400 m Freestyle Multi-class. [ 3 ] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics , McTernan teamed up with Ruby Storm , Ricky Betar and Benjamin Hance in the Mixed 4 x 100 m freestyle S14 . [ 4 ]
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]