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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.
Paralympics Australia (PA) previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) (1998–2019) [1] is the National Paralympic Committee in Australia for the Paralympic Games movement. It oversees the preparation and management of Australian teams that participate at the Summer Paralympics and the Winter Paralympics .
Athletics at the XVI Paralympic Games Athletics pictogram of the 2020 Summer Paralympics Venue Tokyo National Stadium Dates 27 August – 5 September 2021 Competitors 1100 in 168 events from 129 nations ← 2016 2024 → Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in the National Stadium in Tokyo. There was 167 medal events: 93 for men, 73 for women and one mixed event. It was the ...
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]
Lauren Parker (born 15 December 1988) is an Australian para-triathlete and para-cyclist. She won a silver medal (triathlon) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and two gold (triathlon and cycling) and silver (cycling) medals at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [1] She has won multiple World Triathlon Championships in Women's PTWC.
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]
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]