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Australia’s Sole Judoka For Paris 2024 Means Business

Taylor Gosens is set to become the just the second woman to represent Australia in Paralympic judo after she was confirmed by Paralympics Australia as the latest Paris-bound athlete. Gosens will compete in the J2 70kg+ classification when the tournament begins at Champ de Mars Arena on September 5. She will follow in the footsteps...

The World Record That Wasn’t

Of Australia’s 135 Paralympic swimming gold medals, only one came at the 1972 Games in Heidelberg – and the athlete who won it was driven by a technical injustice. Eric Bou

Paralympic Connect: powering our Team towards Toky...

When Paralympics Australia launched the Think Big Gold Medal Challenge with our Major Partner, Optus, in 2017, we could never have anticipated the impact it would have when the Aus

Turning A Let Down Into A Launch Pad

The image suggests an almighty feat. Yet, approaching three decades since he lifted close to triple his bodyweight at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, Ray Epstein concedes it’s a

AIS confirms funding boost for seven Paralympic sp...

The Tokyo 2020 aspirations of seven Paralympic sports have been given a timely and important boost today by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). Paralympics Australia (PA) has

#ThrowbackThursday: The Woman Who Started It All

Daphne Hilton had been “left to die”. A horse-riding accident in 1951 had left the teenager a paraplegic and, as was the case in those days, her future seemed bleak. “They [t

Australian Rollers 25-man squad named

Basketball Australia has announced the Australian Rollers squad for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in 2021. The Paralympics, originally scheduled to take place late August 2020,