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Gold medal favourite Tapper welcomes packed schedule - News
Australia’s first dual Paralympian and Olympian Melissa Tapper is primed and ready for a busy week as the table tennis star prepares to take on both the able-bodied and Para…
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Australians dazzle in stockmen's Opening Ceremony outfits - News
The Australian Paralympic Team won over the crowd at the PyeongChang 2018 Opening Ceremony crowd with their traditional stockmen’s outfits to add a touch of the outback to the Winter…
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Gold to Kelly and Tapp as Aussies taste success in Edmonton - News
Australia has tasted success at the 2017 International Triathlon Union (ITU) World Para-triathlon Series in Edmonton, Canada, with Paralympic champion Katie Kelly (PTVI) and Commonwealth Games nominee Emily Tapp (PTWC)…
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Christian Geiger - Athlete
On track to represent Australia at the Olympic Games, Christian Geiger’s world was turned upside down in 2009 when the car he was riding in slammed into a tree and…
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Athlete voices come together at first-ever IPC Athletes’ Forum - News
Athletes from different Para sports across the world came together, not for competition this time, but rather for conversation, at the first-ever International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes’ Forum held from…
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Prince Harry launches the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney - News
Prince Harry, Patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, has officially launched the countdown to the fourth Invictus Games at a celebration to mark 500 days to go until the opening…
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Australian Paralympian awarded NT Sport's highest honour - News
Paralympian wheelchair basketballer Tom O’Neill-Thorne has been named the Northern Territory Government Sportsperson of the Year at the 2017 Northern Territory Sports Awards.
Minister for Tourism and Culture Lauren Moss…
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Paralympians named as Sir Roden Cutler Award finalists - News
Five of Australia’s most inspiring athletes with a disability, including Paralympic medallists and an Afghanistan War veteran, have been named as finalists in The Primary Club’s Sir Roden Cutler Award.…
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Six inducted into the Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame - News
Six Paralympic pioneers have been immortalised after the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) announced the 2016 inductions into the Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame.
Athletes Kevin Coombs, Daphne Hilton, Tracey Freeman…
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