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Australia achieved 16 world records and 35 Paralympic Records with performances from such athletes as: Todd Hodgetts (Shot Put), Kelly Cartwright (Long Jump), Susan Powell (Individual Pursuit), Bradley Mark (10m Air Rifle), Brenden Hall (400m Freestyle) and Blake Cochrane (100m Breaststroke). In total Australia had 93 medallists of which 25 ...
Record Athlete Nationality Date Games Place Ref. T11: 1.59 Italo Sacchetto Italy 19 October 1988 VIII Seoul, South Korea [44] T12: 2.02 Ruslan Sivitski Belarus 20 October 2000 XI Sydney, Australia [44] T13: 1.98 J. Orcutt United States 6 September 1992 IX Barcelona, Spain [44] T42: 1.96 Arnold Boldt Canada 17 June 1980 VI Arnhem, Netherlands ...
Below is a list of current Australian records in athletics as ratified by the national governing body, Athletics Australia.There are two types of Australian records. An Australian record is the best time recorded anywhere in the world by an athlete or team holding Australian citizenship whilst an Australian All Comers record is the best time recorded in Australia by an athlete or team.
Australia 17 September 2016 Paralympic Games: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [40] [42] T37 1:57.17 Michael McKillop Ireland 21 July 2013 IPC World Championships: Lyon, France [17] [40] T38 1:55.75 Nathan Riech Canada 27 July 2023 Canadian Track and Field Championships: Langley, Canada [43] 1:53.87 Nathan Riech Canada 9 June 2019 Portland Track Festival
Australia was seeded sixth coming into the Atlanta Paralympic tournament. [30] The men's team toured England and the Netherlands in the lead up to the Paralympics. [2] Australia beat Great Britain 78–63 in the gold medal game. This was Australia's first gold medal result in a major international competition for men or women.
His time of 10.96 was the first time a male cerebral palsy athlete had a sub 11 second record time. [ 5 ] Personal best times outside the Paralympics include a time of 51.08 in the T38 400 m event, a record O'Hanlon set in Brisbane, and a distance of 6.11 metres (20.0 ft) in the T38 long jump event that he set in Canberra.
Paralympics Australia (PA) previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) (1998–2019) [1] is the National Paralympic Committee in Australia for the Paralympic Games movement. It oversees the preparation and management of Australian teams that participate at the Summer Paralympics and the Winter Paralympics .
Australia competed in the games between 18 and 29 October. [1] The team consisted of 285 athletes in 18 sports with 148 officials. It was the country's largest ever Paralympic delegation to a Games. Australia has participated at every Summer Paralympic Games since its inception. Australia finished at the top of the medal tally with 63 gold, 39 ...