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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...

Australia’s wheelchair rugby big guns ready to f...

Head coach Brad Dubberley is leaving nothing to chance after announcing a formidable Australian Steelers squad for next month’s Asia Oceania Wheelchair Rugby Championships in Auc

Reardon and Turner crowned kings of the track

A hat-trick of 100m world titles for Reardon, Turner claims his first in world record time Victory was the theme of the day, as two more Australians were crowned world champions, a

Holt surges to gold, as Turner breaks another worl...

She claimed victory as a 14-year-old debutant at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, and now Isis Holt (T35, Vic) has done it again. Soaring across the fin

Silver lining for Australia at World Para-athletic...

Australia continues to impress at the 2017 World Para-athletics Championships in London, England, with three silver and one bronze medal being added to their tally on day two. Be

Debutant Crombie claims Australia’s first gold a...

One of Australia’s Para-athletes has made his international debut a spectacular one, setting a world record to claim gold on the opening night of the World Para-athletics Champio

London 2017 to break all broadcast records

The 2017 World Para-athletics Championships, which open in London, England on Friday evening, are set to break all broadcast records, with more rightsholders than ever before signe