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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...

Team co-captain Gourley gets so close once again

Australian Paralympic Team co-captain Mitchell Gourley enjoyed his third top-10 finish at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games Games, but yet again, a first Paralympic meda

Patmore adds a bronze to his Paralympic medal coll...

Australian Paralympic snowboarder Simon Patmore kept clipping seconds off his time with each run in the men's banked slalom SB-UL in PyeongChang, South Korea, today (16 March) to c

A night on the South Korean coast to refresh Austr...

The Australian Paralympic snowboard team headed off to the South Korean coastal town of Gangneung this week to give everyone a change of scenery between Monday’s snowboard cross

No call yet on Beijing 2022 Games by dual Paralymp...

After breaking her Paralympic Games medal drought in PyeongChang, South Korea, Para-alpine skier Melissa Perrine is undecided on whether to return to Asia in four years’ time for

Perrine backs up her maiden Paralympic medal with ...

Two Paralympic bronze in two days - Melissa Perrine is becoming a medal factory for the Australian Paralympic Team at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

Let’s Go Tokyo – 2018 Para-canoe team announce...

Joining the Olympic paddlers at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Szeged, Hungary and at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships will be a strong Para-canoe team, including Austra