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Australia's first ever gold medal at an Olympic or Paralympic Winter Games was won by Michael Milton when he won the LW2 Slalom event. [20] There are no accurate results for the Australian Paralympic team performances at Winter Games previous to 1992; however, it is known that no-one medalled for Australia until the 1992 Paralympics. [29]
The medal table of the 2024 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that were won by their athletes during the competition. The 2024 Paralympics was the seventeenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities .
It brings Australian Paralympic medallists in line with Australian Olympic medallists who receive similar medal reward payments by the Australian Olympic Committee. [7] The 159 strong team was finalised on 8 August 2024. [8]
Albania, [11] Cape Verde, [12] Dominica, [13] and Saint Lucia won their nations' first Olympic medals. [13] The Refugee Olympic Team also won their first medal. [14] The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in ...
Men's wheelchair basketball 1996 [9] Alison Mosely: 0 2 0 Wheelchair basketball 2000, 2004 [9] Christopher Mullins: 1 0 0 Athletics 2008 [9] David Munk: 0 0 2 Alpine Skiing 1992, 1994 [9] Kevin Munro: 1 1 0 Athletics 1968: South Australia [9] Brad Ness: 1 2 0 Wheelchair Basketball 2004, 2008, 2012: Western Australia [9] Andrew Newell: 0 0 2 ...
This medal table also includes the medals won at the 1992 Summer Paralympics for Intellectually Disabled, held in Madrid, who also organized by then International Coordenation Committee (ICC) and same Organizing Committee (COOB'92) who made the gestion of the 1992 Summer Paralympics held in Barcelona and also part of same event.
1998 – The Australian Paralympic Federation changed its name to the Australian Paralympic Committee. A new logo was created. [32] 2000 – Sydney hosted the 11th Summer Paralympics, the first Games held outside the Northern Hemisphere. Australia finished first on the medal tally winning 149 medals – 63 gold, 39 silver and 47 bronze medals.
Australia finished at the top of the medal tally with 63 gold, 39 silver and 47 bronze medals to total 149 medals for the games. This was the first time and the only time to date that Australia has finished on top of either an Olympic or Paralympic medal tally. [2]