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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.
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 ...
In 1993, Michael Milton was the first Winter Paralympian to receive a scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). [23] In 2001, the AIS and Australian Paralympic Committee formally established a skiing program for athletes with a disability. [24] All Australian Winter Paralympic Games medals have been won by AIS scholarship ...
Notable Australian films of the 1930s: On Our Selection (1932) – comedy based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd; In the Wake of the Bounty (1933) – first film to star Errol Flynn, an iconic Australian "swashbuckler" character; The Squatter's Daughter (1933) – directed by Ken G. Hall, one of the most popular Australian films of ...
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.
Cowdrey competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Paralympic Games, 2010 Commonwealth Games, and the 2012 Paralympic Games. After the 2012 London Games, he is the most successful Australian Paralympian, having won thirteen Paralympic gold medals and twenty three Paralympic medals in total.
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.
South Australia [9] Peter Marsh: 0 0 2 Athletics 1976: Queensland [9] Graeme Martin: 1 0 1 Sailing 2000, 2008: Western Australia [9] John Martin: 0 1 0 Archery 1964 [9] Terry Mason: 0 0 2 Athletics, Weightlifting 1972, 1976 [9] Bill Mather-Brown: 0 2 0 Table tennis 1960, 1968 [9] Tim Matthews: 3 0 2 Athletics 1996, 2000 [9] Marty Mayberry: 0 1 ...