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No nation has ever won a World Championship in wheelchair rugby on home soil, but Australian coach Brad Dubberley believes he has selected a team that can finally create history…

Dylan Alcott will take part in the first ever quad wheelchair tennis match at Wimbledon when he partners South Africa’s Lucas Sithole in an exhibition doubles event. Dylan Alcott will…

In a repeat of May’s opening round of the UCI Para Road World Cup, Carol Cooke claimed gold and silver at round two in the Netherlands.  Cooke prevailed in the…

When two Australian Paralympians couldn’t answer a simple question about the lack of diversity within the Australian Paralympic team, they knew it was time to help take action. It was…

Five-time Paralympic champion Elizabeth Edmondson made history at the Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games when she became the youngest Australian athlete to win a Paralympic gold medal. Today she celebrates her…

The Australian Gliders have landed in Colorado Springs for their final pre-World Championship tour with a six-game series scheduled against the Netherlands, Canada and the USA. The American tour follows…

Australia’s overwhelming favouritism for the upcoming Wheelchair Rugby World Championship in Sydney has been damaged at the Canada Cup overnight after the Steelers took the bronze medal. The United States…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will host the 2019 World Para-athletics Championships from 7-15 November next year, World Para Athletics has announced. The championships will take place at the new athletics …

It was 1953. A 12-year-old Kevin Coombs was trawling the banks of the Murrumbidgee River for rabbits with his cousins Ray, Alec and Noel. Noel, who was seven at the…