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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 ...
Wheelchair tennis first entered the Summer Paralympic Games in 1988 as a demonstration sport. Australia has competed at every Paralympic wheelchair tennis competition. Australia has competed at every Paralympic wheelchair tennis competition.
This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals. See the particular article on the athlete for more details on when and for what nation an athlete competed.
The Official Australian Paralympic Team Launch was held in Sydney on 20 June 2016. [13] The major dignitaries present were Prime Minister of Australia , Malcolm Turnbull , Federal Minister for Sport , Sussan Ley , the Shadow Minister for Sport, Jim Chalmers and the New South Wales Minister for Sport, Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres ...
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 ...
The International Paralympic Committee recognises the fastest performances in athletics events at the Paralympic Games. Athletics has been part of every Summer Paralympic Games . In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability.
Susan Marjory "Tracey" Freeman (née Lumby; 10 January 1948 – 4 October 2023) was an Australian Paralympic athlete who won ten medals at two Paralympics. Personal life [ edit ]
Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as ...