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Michael John Milton, OAM [1] (born 21 March 1973) is an Australian Paralympic skier, Paralympic cyclist and paratriathlete [2] with one leg. With 6 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals he is the most successful Australian Paralympic athlete in the Winter Games. In 2024, Milton was elevated to Legend of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
Athletics was Australia's most successful sport at the Games winning 53 medals – 14 gold, 19 silver and 20 bronze medals. 13 athletes won gold medals. Rodney Nugent won 4 gold. Four athletes came home with two gold medals – Adrian Lowe, Nigel Parsons, Russell Short and Bruce Wallrodt.
The 2000 Sydney Summer Paralympic Games are Australia's most successful Paralympic games to date. In the final medal tally, Australia was ranked first with 149 overall medals; 63 gold, 39 silver, and 47 bronze medals. [6] [20] Australia was represented by their largest team ever. The success of the team combined with extensive media coverage ...
This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals. See the particular article on the athlete for more details on when and for what nation an athlete competed.
Freeman was born on 10 January 1948 [1] and became a quadriplegic due to polio at the age of two in 1951, while living in the Queensland city of Mount Isa.She went to the Crippled Children's Centre in the Sydney suburb of Redfern until the age of 15, when she moved to the Mt Wilga Rehabilitation Centre.
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.
Ben Tudhope (born 13 December 1999) is an Australian Paralympian who has competed in para-snowboard cross at three Winter Paralympics 2014 to 2022. His selection at the age of 14 at the 2014 Winter Paralympics meant that he became Australia's youngest Winter Paralympian, replacing Michael Milton.
He and the rest of Australia's para-alpine team arrived in the Paralympic village on 9 March 2010. [29] As a 24-year-old, [11] Mayberry competed in five events in the 2010 Paralympic games: downhill, super G, super combined, giant slalom, and slalom. [30] His parents were in Vancouver to watch him compete. [19]