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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...

Watson to lead a team of 20 to Para-swimming World...

Rio’s magnificent seven with Rachael Watson in world record-breaking form will again lead the Australian Paralympic swim team into the IPC World Championships in Mexico City in S

Australians to take on boccia Regional Open in Dub...

Four boccia athletes will represent Australia at the first international boccia tournament of the Paralympic quadrennium this week, when they compete at the 2017 BISFed Asian Regio

Rio gold and now a world record for Rachael Watson

Paralympic golden girl Rachael Watson (Chandler) set the Brisbane Aquatic Centre twice yesterday, breaking her own S4 world record in the women’s 50m freestyle women’s

Levy clocks new world record at Swimming Nationals

Seven-time Paralympic medallist and stalwart of the Australian Para-swimming team, Matt Levy, has stunned his competition at the 2017 Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane,

Patterson and Thomas Kane add to their gold medal ...

Paralympic swim stars Lakeisha Patterson and Tiffany Thomas Kane added to their gold medal haul on night two of the 2017 Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane, QLD, with Pa

Rio 2016 Paralympians star at Swimming Nationals

Para-swimming golden girls Tiffany Thomas Kane and Lakeisha Patterson have returned to the pool in the style off the back of their impressive multiple medal hauls at the Rio 2016 P