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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...

Canoe - Preview

Australia’s paracanoe team features an eclectic mix of characters, from a rising schoolboy talent, to a former V8 driver, a tenacious mum of two, to an Australian Army Sapper

Wind delays all three sailing crews

The Skud 18 pair from the United States quipped that defending gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch must have jets propelling their boat, such was the magnitude of the Au

Triple silver and a bronze in the pool

Silver was the new gold at the pool on night six of the Rio Paralympic Games, with the Aussies winning three and a bronze, to take their total medal tally to 18 with four days rema

Michel begins his Paralympic debut with a win

Daniel Michel has today won his first Rio 2016 Paralympic Games pool match in a dream start for Australia’s first boccia athlete to qualify for the Paralympic Games since Sydney

Road cycling - Preview

The Paralympic cycling campaign hits the road tomorrow with 12 Australians in action in the time trial events at Pontal. David Nicholas in the C3 and Carol Cooke in the T2 both lin

Equestrians forced to battle Rio heat

Australia's Para-equestrians and their horses have been forced to battle the stifling Rio de Janeiro heat, as they competed in the individual and team tests at the Equestrian Centr