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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...

Volunteer at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

The Rio 2016 Volunteer program has been officially launched. Following the success of the London 2012 volunteer program, the Rio Games Organising Committee (ROCOG) is on the lookou

Integrated event for able-bodied and Para-table Te...

The 2015 ITTF-Oceania Cup and Para-table Tennis Championships will be the first event to integrate able-bodied table tennis with Para-table Tennis in the history of ITTF. Awarded t

Vale Peter Trotter

The Australian Paralympic community mourns the passing this week of 1984 and 1988 Paralympian Peter Trotter (1956-2014). Peter was considered by many to be a trailblazer for modern

Louise Sauvage inducted to Athletics Australia Hal...

The Athletics Australia Hall of Fame was established to recognise the outstanding achievements of Australia’s truly great athletes across the course of this history and since the

Talent discovered at inaugural Para-sports Draft t...

The inaugural Para-sports Draft is successfully underway, with a quarter of participants at the first testing day showing they have the potential to become Paralympic athletes, say

Australian Sailing Team opens National Training Ce...

The Australian Sailing Team has opened an extended deck at the National Training Centre at Middle Harbour Yacht Club in Sydney, which upgrades the Team’s AIS Training Centre in o