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Kathryn Ross was two years old when an accident involving a ride-on lawnmower resulted in the fusing of her right knee and ankle joints. Doing little to quell her passion…

Wheelchair rugby superstar Josh Hose became a quadriplegic in a car accident on Australia Day in 2005, when the driver of the car he was in lost control of the…

Like fine wine, 33-year-old Matthew Levy is better with age. Born 15 weeks prematurely, with cerebral palsy and a vision impairment, Matthew has survived 50-plus operations – brain, heart, lungs,…

Richard Colman has always aspired to do his best. As it happens, his best is world-beating, with the track specialist having spearheaded the Australian Para-athletics team for over a decade.…

Scooter – named after the scooter he uses to get around – first hit the pool as an 11-year-old. Para-swimming wasn’t necessarily his first choice – rather, it was one…

Two-time Paralympian Daniel Fox is one of the Australian Para-swimming team’s most experienced competitors. He exploded onto the international scene in 2010, winning a World Championships silver medal in the…

At the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, wheelchair basketball-turned-wheelchair tennis star Dylan Alcott realised his dream of winning a second Paralympic gold medal in a second sport when he and quad…

Ryley Batt is one of the greatest wheelchair rugby players the world has ever seen. For a long time – 12 years, in fact – Ryley had avoided using a…

When Ellie Cole left her room at the Australian Institute of Sport and made her way to the airport for the London 2012 Paralympic Games, she told herself she would…