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As much at home in the water and on snow as on land, Ben Fawcett has always enjoyed an active lifestyle, and a snowboarding accident at 18 did little to…

Few can accuse Paralympic wheelchair rugby player Jason ‘Banger’ Lees of taking a back seat to life. Renowned for his on-court intimidation of some of the world’s most fearless athletes,…

Andrew Harrison was 17 when he was first introduced to wheelchair rugby – by none other than three-time Paralympian Bryce Alman. He would go on to win two Paralympic gold…

Although 24-year-old Jayden Warn was the youngest member of the Australian wheelchair rugby team, the Steelers, at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, he was able to keep his inexperience under…

Before Chris Bond was an international wheelchair rugby star, he was a 19-year-old battling acute promyelocytic leukaemia. He survived, but lost his left hand, right fingers and legs below the…

Athletics Australia (AA) is pleased to announce additional investment in high performance para-athletics from the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), additional resources allocated from AA, and…

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 …

The medal hopes of the Australian women’s goalball team have ended at the 2018 IBSA World Championships, with a loss to Brazil in the quarter-final overnight in Malmö, Sweden. Hopes…

Rheed McCracken breaking his T34 100m world record and Madison de Rozario equalling the T53/54 1500m world record were just two of the outstanding performances by Australian wheelchair racers in…