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Women – Lynette Coleman, Karen Gill, Meredith Jones, Deahnne McIntyre, Yvette McLellan, Patricia Molseed, Julie Russell, Donna Smith, Katrina Vines 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.
She was therefore selected for a place in the Australian team at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, where she won three gold medals and broke world records in the Women's Discus 1B, Women's Javelin 1B, and Women's Shot Put 1B events, and two silver medals in the Women's 60 m Wheelchair 1B and Women's Slalom 1B events.
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 ...
Amy Louise Winters, OAM [1] (born 19 March 1978) [2] is an arm amputee Australian Paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at three Paralympic Games, including five gold medals. She won seven medals at three Paralympic Games, including five gold medals.
Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM (born 18 September 1973) [1] is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach. [2] Sauvage is often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in Australia. [3] [4] She won nine gold and four silver medals at four Paralympic Games and eleven gold and two silver medals at three IPC Athletics World ...
211000 - Athletics wheelchair racing 10km heat John Maclean action 2 - 3b - 2000 Sydney race photo Australian track athletes Katrina Webb (left) and Alison Quinn (right), seen from behind with the Australian flag, celebrate with the crowd over their medal wins in the 100 m T38 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. Quinn won gold and Webb won silver ...
- Awards: Australian Paralympian of the Year 2012 and Australian Female Athlete of the Year. - The most successful individual medallist of any nation in London. - Ranked equal first on total medals won at a single Paralympic Games with fellow Australian swimmer Matthew Cowdrey and USA swimmer Jessica Long, with eight medals in total.
Paralympic athletics 2008 [9] Ken Moran: 0 1 0 Lawn bowls 1984 [9] Bruno Moretti: 1 3 0 Table tennis, Athletics 1968 [9] Michael Morley: 1 0 1 Athletics 1984 [9] Nick Morris: 1 0 0 Men's wheelchair basketball 1996 [9] Alison Mosely: 0 2 0 Wheelchair basketball 2000, 2004 [9] Christopher Mullins: 1 0 0 Athletics 2008 [9] David Munk: 0 0 2 Alpine ...