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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...

Table tennis - opening match

Melissa Tapper, the first Australian to compete at a Olympic and Paralympic Games in the same year, has begun her Rio Paralympic Games campaign with a win, defeating Turkey’s Umr

Smith, Kosmala miss shooting medals on day one

Queensland shooter Natalie Smith has finished fifth in the women's 10m air rifle standing SH1 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

Cycling preview - Day 1

Two of Australia’s reigning Paralympic Champions will be in action on Day 1 of track cycling competition at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games. Sue Powell won the gold medal in the C4

Rio welcomes the Paralympic world

The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony started with extreme wheelchair athlete Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham zipping down a 17 metre-long ramp, and ended with Brazilian s

Governor General visits Australian Paralympians in...

The Governor General of Australia, His Excellency Sir Peter Cosgrove, visited Australia’s Paralympians in the Rio Athletes Village today on the eve of the Rio 2016 Paralympic

Rollers captain to lead the whole Australian Team ...

The Australian men’s wheelchair basketball team captain, Brad Ness, will now lead a far bigger sporting contingent out into the arena with the news he will be Flag Bearer for the