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Australia entered 12 athletes for the Paralympic games. Six of them qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of their gold medal results, in their respective class, through the 2023 Oceanian Championships in Honiara , Solomon Islands; [ 22 ] meanwhile the other athletes qualified through the allocations of ITTF final world ranking.
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 would send athletes to every subsequent Paralympic Games, including the 1976 Winter Paralympics, although due to the organisers only allowing amputees, blind or visually impaired athletes, Australia's only representative skier Ron Finneran was unable to compete due to childhood Polio having impaired a leg and arm.
Australian runner Jaryd Clifford says he is “devastated” after being disqualified from a Paralympic event over the weekend. Clifford, 25, finished third in the men’s 5000-meter T13 final Aug ...
A Paralympics Australia spokesperson told CNN Sport that, as of July 2024, “the high-performance investment into Paralympic sport has essentially doubled for the next two years.”
Athletics events have been held at every Paralympic Games. At the end of the Beijing Games, athletics was Australia's most successful medal sport.Since 2001, Athletics Australia has the responsibility of preparing the Australian athletics team for the Paralympic Games. .
A CNN Sport analysis has found that many Paralympic champions are being paid less in rewards or bonuses than their Olympic counterparts to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Australian flag bearers - Mitchell Gourley and Melissa Perrine at Opening Ceremony. Kate McLoughlin served as the Chef de Mission. [6] McLoughlin is first woman hold the position for an Australian Winter Paralympics team and was the Chef de Mission for Australian teams at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics.