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Timothy Disken propelled himself into the international spotlight when he won a gold medal in the men’s 100m freestyle S9 at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Since then, he has…

Tiffany Thomas Kane was just shy of 14 when she won a gold medal on debut at the 2015 International Paralympic Committee Para-swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. Not only…

In April 2014, Monique Murphy woke from an induced coma without her right foot. A week earlier, she had fallen from a fifth-floor balcony at a university party – she…

Growing up in Perth, Madeleine Scott followed her older sisters into swimming. Her sisters were very competitive and so Madeleine decided to get involved when she was 13, was classified…

As successful a Para-swimmer as Lakeisha ‘Lucky’ Patterson is, it is sheer commitment – not luck – that has overseen her rise to the top of her sport. Lucky, who…

Jenna Jones was targeting the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games to make her Paralympic debut, but that dream came four years early when she qualified for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.…

Samuel Von Einem was an avid tennis player before relocating to Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2003. Due to the heat, his parents kept a table tennis table inside their house…

‘We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.’ This line by Randy Pausch is memorable for Kate Naess, who knows all too well that…

Born in Bath, England Guy Harrison-Murray moved to Perth with his family in 2011. He qualified for his first senior team at the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships and went on…