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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...

Perrine finally cracks the Paralympic Winter Games...

A near-perfect slalom by Melissa Perrine and sighted guide Christian Geiger handed the NSW Southern Highlands skier her first Paralympic medal at her third Paralympic Winter Games

Pollard takes a giant step on his new sporting jou...

Four years ago and Sean Pollard was an electrician in WA. Today (13 March) he is a Winter Paralympian after completing his first Para-snowboard event at the PyeongChang 2018 Paraly

Rio 2016 Paralympians headline 2018 National Sprin...

Rio 2016 Paralympians headline 2018 National Sprint Titles at Sydney International Regatta Centre 6 – 10 March 2018 Australia’s best sprint canoe paddlers hit the water at Sydn

Commonwealth Games and Summer Paralympics help Pat...

Australia’s newest gold medallist Simon Patmore would like to thank his Commonwealth Games and Summer Paralympics racing for helping him add a Paralympic winter medal to his

Patmore enters Australian Paralympic history as Au...

Simon Patmore is the boy from Nundah, QLD, who has now become a permanent fixture in Australian Paralympic history, with his breakthrough gold medal in the men's snowboard cross SB

A statement from the Australian Paralympic Committ...

A knee injury has ended the PyeongChang 2018 campaign of Australian flag bearer and co-captain Joany Badenhorst before it began. Badenhorst injured her left knee in a crash during