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Melissa Tapper and Andrea McDonnell have progressed to the bronze medal match of the teams event in table tennis, giving Australia a chance at a second Paralympic medal in the…

The Australian Belles have been knocked out of medal contention in women’s goalball at Rio 2016, after losing their final pool game 6-0 to Canada. Needing at least a draw…

Erik Horrie is “over the moon” to have secured a second straight silver medal, in the AS men’s single sculls at the Rio Paralympics rowing regatta. The 36-year-old was one…

Claire McLean never learnt to swim as a youngster and, as the years went by, she developed what she describes as “an enormous phobia of water”. “It became really an…

Russia has been banned from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) confirmed it has suspended the membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC). The IPC…

The only known vision of the 1972 Paralympic Games is among rare footage from the 1970s and 1980s which has been donated to the National Film and Sound Archive of…

The Australian Paralympic Team uniform for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games was officially unveiled today at Sydney’s Doltone House, with 21 Paralympic athletes on hand to model the range. The…

Australia’s Paralympic shooters have pledged to dedicate their success at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games to late five-time Paralympian Ashley Adams, after the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) today (17 May)…

Tokyo 2020 today unveilled the official emblems of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, “Harmonized Chequered Emblems.” The design was highly acclaimed by the public and the Tokyo 2020 Emblems…