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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...

Targeting Talent 4 Tokyo 2020

Do you think you have what it takes to make it to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games? Your chance is here thanks to the new ‘Talent 4 Tokyo’ initiative. Through funding fr

Star-studded line-up for Parathon

The stars line up this Saturday to help our Paralympians realise their dreams in Rio. Channel Seven will broadcast the Weekend Sunrise Parathon LIVE from Sydney’s Martin Plac

4 days to go! The Weekend Sunrise Parathon lands ...

Join some of Australia’s Paralympic hopefuls for the Weekend Sunrise Parathon in Sydney’s Martin Place this Saturday, in their quest to raise funds to send the 2016 Australian

Australia’s silver lining at wheelchair rugby te...

After five wins and one loss, the Australian wheelchair rugby team has finished the Aquece Rio International test event in second place. Despite ultimately losing the top spot to w

2016 National Para-cycling Road champions crowned

The Road to Rio stopped in Adelaide over the weekend for Australia’s Para-cyclists for the 2016 Cycling Australia Para-Cycling Road National Championships with men’s an

Fearnley wins Tokyo Marathon

Australian wheelchair athlete Kurt Fearnley has won the Tokyo Marathon at his first attempt. Fearnley finished the race in a time of 1 hour 26 minutes 1 second, sprinting clear of