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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 ...
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 ...
Australia won 10 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze medals. Australian athletes set six world records, a further three Paralympic records and 16 Australian records during the Games. Heath Francis and Evan O'Hanlon won three gold medals. [2] [10] Detailed Australian Results
Australian Paralympic Sailing Team [7] Matthew Bugg (Single person 2.4mR), Daniel Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (Two person Skud 18), Colin Harrison, Russell Boaden, Jonathan Harris (Three person Sonar) 2020 Women’s Table Tennis (Class 9-10) Team Melissa Tapper, Qian Yang, Lina Lei [2] 2024
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]
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 .
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.