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Australian athlete Jodi Willis stands at the podium after winning the Women's Shot Put B2 event at the 1992 Summer Paralympics. See also: Goalball at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Goalball is the only Paralympic team sport for vision-impaired athletes and has been part of the competition program since 1976.
She made the Australian Paralympic shooting shadow team in 2011. [8] At the 2011 IPC World Cup meet in Fort Benning, she won a gold medal in the SH1 standing air rifle event. [3] In the process, she set an Australian record. [5] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in shooting. [3] [7] [9] The Games were her ...
Born in Brisbane, [2] Smith was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of thirteen, and one of her legs was amputated above the knee. [3]At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Javelin A2 event, a silver medal in the Women's Shot Put A2 event, and a bronze medal in the Women's Discus A2 event. [4]
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 2012 Australian Paralympic team had 161 athletes, 90 men and 71 women, competing in 13 sports. [4] About half the team attended their first Games. [ 6 ] Shooter Libby Kosmala , at the age of 70, was Australia's oldest competitor. [ 7 ]
At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, she finished sixth in Women's Shot Put F34 and fourth in the Women's Javelin F34. She broke Australian and Oceania records in the javelin event. [4] At the 2024 Paris Paralympics, she won the bronze medal in the Women's Javelin throw F34 and finished ninth in the Women's Shot put F34. [5]
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 ...
At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics as a classified B2 athlete in the women's 100 m, 400 m, shot put, long jump and high jump. [2] Miurphy won two medals: a silver medal in the women's high jump B2 event and a bronze in the women's long jump B2 event. [2] As Margaret Booth, she competed at the Seoul 1988 Summer Paralympics in ...