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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 ...
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:
Swimming World Magazine has named him their "World Swimmer of the Year with a Disability." [15] In 2009, he was named the Young South Australian of the Year. [35] In 2011, he was inducted into the Australian Institute of Sport's "Best of the Best". [36] Cowdrey was a finalist for the 2012 Australian Paralympian of the Year. [37]
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.
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 ...
O'Hanlon interviewed after receiving the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year award at the Australian Paralympian of the Year ceremony. At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, O'Hanlon won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 events, [13] [14] a silver medal in the 400 m event, and a bronze in the 4x100 m relay event. He finished fourth in the men ...
Fabian John Blattman, OAM [1] (born 28 December 1958) [2] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He became disabled after a motorbike accident. He started playing disabled bowls, before switching to athletics. As a Paralympic athletics competitor, he has set several world records and won two Paralympic gold medals.
This is the most gold medals won by an Australian athlete at a single Paralympic Games. - 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 ...