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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...

London 2012 Paralympic Games voted best moment of ...

To mark its 25th anniversary on Monday 22nd September, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the London 2012 Paralympic Games has been voted as the number

"We should be proud of our achievements" says Pres...

To mark the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) 25th anniversary today, IPC President Sir Philip Craven has said people should be proud of the IPC’s many achieve

Australia’s leading boccia players compete to qu...

Australia’s success at the 2014 BISFED World Championships in Beijing, China will play a key role in Australia qualifying Boccia athletes for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Two o

Para-sports Draft to offer equal opportunity for p...

Young people with both a physical and neurological impairment will have more opportunities to participate in elite-level sport thanks to the upcoming Para-sports Draft, a drive dev

Wheelchair racer Richard Colman back in action for...

London gold medallist Richard Colman will be taking on his first race since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games when he enters the Sydney Marathon this Sunday. Having landed back i

Tapper wins Australia’s first ever ITTF Para-tab...

Victoria’s Melissa Tapper says she’s ‘stoked’ to have won Australia’s first ever medal at a Para Table Tennis World Championships. 24-year-old Tapper won bronze in Beijin