Meet Our Athletes

Extraordinary stories from inspiring individuals

Everyone has a story to tell. This is your chance to meet your Paralympians and find out what drives them to keep on achieving their dreams.

Sam Tait

Sit-skier Sam Tait acquired paraplegia at 22 when he broke his T11 vertebrae in a motorcycle accident in Wollongong, NSW. Three days after being airlifted to…
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Sam Von Einem

Samuel Von Einem was an avid tennis player before relocating to Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2003. Due to the heat, his parents kept a table tennis…
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Sam Walker

To his family and friends, Sam Walker is known as ‘Bang’. As in, ‘BANG! And he’s away!’ The international Para-athletics community was first introduced to ‘Bang’…
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Sam White

After Sam acquired his impairment in 2010, his family moved from Adelaide to the US where Sam studied IT systems and joined the University of Washington…
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Samantha Schmidt

Donning the green and gold was always been a goal of Samantha Schmidt’s, since first watching the Paralympic Games as a child. Samantha was introduced to…
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Samuel Carter

For wheelchair racer Samuel Carter, having spina bifida has never been an excuse not to play sport. He started in wheelchair basketball and Para-swimming, before an…
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