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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:
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.
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.
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 ...
Australian swimmers won 35 medals – 10 gold, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals. 7 athletes won gold medals. Notable performances – Priya Cooper was the most successful Australian athlete at the 1992 Paralympic games, earning herself three gold medals and two silver medals, only to go on to do even better in future games. [11]
She was therefore selected for a place in the Australian team at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, where she won three gold medals and broke world records in the Women's Discus 1B, Women's Javelin 1B, and Women's Shot Put 1B events, and two silver medals in the Women's 60 m Wheelchair 1B and Women's Slalom 1B events.
The Australian Paralympic Team's Facebook page grew by 16,000 fans and its YouTube channel reached close to 474,000 views. [4] [11] The Australian Government declared that the coverage was “the most comprehensive ever implemented by the Australian Paralympic Committee Communications division”. [4]