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Powerlifting Resurgence Gains Pace With Paris 2024 Selections

Australian powerlifting is back after a 12-year absence from Paralympic competition. The nation’s two leading lifters, Hani Watson and Ben Wright, were confirmed by Paralympics Australia as the newest members of the Australian Paralympic Team for Paris 2024 at a ceremony in Melbourne. “It’s like my mum said to me before she passed away last...

Aussies power home in Devonport

Commonwealth Games medallists Lauren Parker and Nic Beveridge have both powered to their second victories of the week, winning the International Triathlon Union (ITU) Para-triathlo

Australian Para-snowboard World Championships team...

Ski & Snowboard Australia (SSA) has announced the three athletes who will represent Australia at the 2019 World Para-snowboard World Championships, which get underway on 26 March i

Disken dancing to his own tune

As comebacks go, Timothy Disken's rise from a medically induced coma in a Canadian hospital bed to double gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games takes some beating.

Paralympic and world champions headline Devonport

Lauren Parker heads into the 2019 International Triathlon Union Para-triathlon World Cup in Devonport, TAS, on Saturday (2 March) with a huge boost of confidence, after taking top

Low returns to Grand Prix in style

The scene is set for a terrific season of Para-athletics, with three world records, subject to ratification, falling on the first day of competition at the season-opening 2019 Worl

Sachs to be inducted into Australian Basketball Ha...

Paralympian Troy Sachs will be inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame at the 2019 Basketball Australia Awards night on 10 May.