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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...

Badenhorst not budging despite double Games blow

She was the best women's SB-LL2 athlete for the 2017-2018 World Para-snowboard World Cup season, so Joany Badenhorst is not going to budge from her new duties as chief cheerleader

Patmore turns Summer into Winter

There’s only been six of them in 40 years, so Queensland’s Simon Patmore will enter a fairly exclusive club of athletes who have competed at both a Paralympic Summer an

Survival test for Australia in the Super G at the ...

It certainly was a survival test at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre today as the Super G Para-alpine skiers experienced the warmest conditions yet at either the 2018 Winter Olympics or

Australians dust themselves off to focus on Super ...

With a warm burst of weather approaching, Australia’s Paralympic alpine skiers are hoping to get some good results from Sunday’s Super-G event at PyeongChang’s Je

Pendergast gives her all in first Paralympic downh...

It was Tori Pendergast's second Paralympic Games but her first Paralympic downhill race, and she definitely had to wait for the privilege.

Two top-five results gives Australians hope of bet...

Tori Pendergast let a medal slip from her grasp at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games today but she still came up with the best Downhill result from the six Australians w