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For Natalie Smith, being a Paralympian is an honour beyond words. Instead, she showed what the opportunity means to her by winning the Australian Paralympic Team’s first medal of the…

From the country town of Horsham in Victoria to the heights of American wheelchair basketball, Jannik Blair is a star in the making. Jannik first started playing wheelchair basketball in…

For wheelchair racer Samuel Carter, having spina bifida has never been an excuse not to play sport. He started in wheelchair basketball and Para-swimming, before an introduction to Paralympic gold…

Melissa Tapper makes history. No matter which way you cut it, that’s a fact. On track for a successful career in able-bodied sport, Melissa’s world was turned upside down when…

Before Ahmed Kelly was a three-time Paralympian, he was living in an orphanage in Baghdad, Iraq, with his brother Emmanuel. Both had been born with severely underdeveloped arms and legs…

While most kids his age were playing sport or video games, Tristan Knowles spent his pre-teens inside the four walls of a hospital. A shock bone cancer diagnosis at nine,…

Perth local Shaun Norris is one of the most accomplished athletes on the Australian Rollers squad, having already represented Australia at five Paralympic Games and won two World Championship titles.…

Life changed dramatically for BMX rider Sam McIntosh when he broke his neck casing the landing of a “pretty unspectacular” jump while holidaying with his family in 2007. Then, after…

Sam Harding was originally a tandem cyclist before finding his love for running in 2009. The West Australian native began his competitive career in athletics following his participation in cross…