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Represented other Paralympic nations – Ma Lin, Lei Li Na, Yang Qian (All represented China in table tennis), Vanessa Low (represented Germany in athletics) [28] Seventeen Australian team athletes won multiple medals. [30] Lauren Parker won a gold medal in two distinct sports - triathlon and cycling.
At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he was the captain of the Australian Paralympic team. [7] At the games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 50 m Freestyle S9 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] and a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S7–10 event. [13]
Daniela di Toro and Ryley Batt at the announcement that they would jointly carry the Australian flag in the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Paralympics. In November 2019, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and table tennis player Daniela di Toro , were named as co-captains. [ 3 ]
Brendan Burkett, Australian Paralympic swimmer was the opening ceremony flag bearer and Neil Fuller, Australian Paralympic athletics medalist was the closing ceremony flag bearer. [15] Australian athlete Louise Sauvage lit the Paralympic Cauldron at the opening ceremony. [16] The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird, a Paralympic medalist in 1980 and ...
Australian flag bearers - Mitchell Gourley and Melissa Perrine at Opening Ceremony Kate McLoughlin served as the Chef de Mission. [ 6 ] McLoughlin is first woman hold the position for an Australian Winter Paralympics team and was the Chef de Mission for Australian teams at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics .
Gregory Stephen Smith, OAM [1] (born 19 August 1967) is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair rugby player who won three gold medals in athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and a gold medal in wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where he was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Finneran carried the Australian flag at the Opening Ceremony and tested the courses before competition. [12] [13] Australia hosted the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, topping the Medal tally for the first time with 63 golds and is scheduled to host the 2032 Summer Paralympics in Brisbane. [14] [15]
Cameron Rahles-Rahbula, competing at his fourth Winter Paralympics, was named as the Australian flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony. [5] [13] After being named flag bearer, Rahles-Rahbula had a skiing training accident that made his participation doubtful. He went on to carry the flag but withdrew from the Games on medical advice. [5]