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The Australian Paralympic Swim Team has competed at every Summer Paralympics, which started with the 1960 Summer Paralympic Games. [1]Matthew Cowdrey at the 2012 London Games replaced Priya Cooper as Australia's most successful Paralympic swimmer, with a tally of 13 gold medals over three Paralympic Games (2004, 2008 and 2012).
Multiple Paralympic sports representation – Daniela di Toro (tennis / table tennis), Amanda Reid (swimming / cycling), A J Jennings (canoeing / archery), Jessica Gallagher (athletics / skiing / cycling), Ella Sabljak (wheelchair basketball / wheeelchair rugby). At the 2024 Games, Lauren Parker will be competing in triathlon and road cycling. [28]
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 impact of COVID-19. [7]
London was the best performance by Australia's Paralympic swim team since 1984. Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay swim team achieved Australia's 1000th Summer Paralympic Games medal (Australia's 41st of the Games).
In late 2016, he was selected as a member of the Australian Paralympic Development Squad. In 2019, he was selected on his first Australian swim team. [11] At the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London, he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 m butterfly S10 and sixth in the men's 100 m backstroke S10 and men's 200 m individual medley ...
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]
Timothy Hodge OAM (born 31 January 2001) [1] is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He has represented Australia at the 2016 , 2020 , and 2024 Summer Paralympics , where he won two gold, three silver and one bronze medals.
Swimming 2000 [9] Michael Anderson: 0 1 0 Swimming 2008 [10] Troy Andrews: 1 0 0 Wheelchair basketball 1996 [4] [11] Kieran Ault-Connell: 2 1 0 Athletics 2000, 2004: Victoria [12] Ben Austin: 2 4 3 Swimming 2000, 2004 New South Wales [13] Kate Bailey: 0 0 4 Swimming 2000, 2004 [9] [14] Greg Ball: 3 0 1 Cycling 2000, 2004, 2008: Queensland [15 ...