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In the final medal tally, Australia was ranked first with 149 overall medals; 63 gold, 39 silver, and 47 bronze medals. [6] [20] Australia was represented by their largest team ever. The success of the team combined with extensive media coverage went a long way to changing public attitudes towards Paralympic athletes and understanding them as ...
Australia finished first on the medal tally winning 149 medals – 63 gold, 39 silver and 47 bronze medals. It has been Australia's most successful summer Paralympics to date. [33] At the end of the Games, International Paralympic Committee, Robert Steadward declared Sydney the "best Games ever". [33]
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.
Australia won four Winter Paralympic medals in 1992—one gold, a silver and two bronze. Michael Milton , an amputee alpine skier, won gold in slalom and silver in super-G. David Munk , a paraplegic sit-skier, won bronze in super-G. Michael Norton , a paraplegic sit-skier, won bronze in the downhill. [ 12 ]
Ellie Cole with two bronze medals became Australia's leading female Paralympic medallist with 17 medals - 6 gold, 5 silver, 6 bronze. Gold medallists repeating Rio Paralympics gold - James Turner (athletics), Vanessa Low (athletics), Curtis McGrath (canoeing), Lakeisha Patterson (swimming), Rachael Watson (swimming), Dylan Alcott (wheelchair ...
South Australia [9] Peter Marsh: 0 0 2 Athletics 1976: Queensland [9] Graeme Martin: 1 0 1 Sailing 2000, 2008: Western Australia [9] John Martin: 0 1 0 Archery 1964 [9] Terry Mason: 0 0 2 Athletics, Weightlifting 1972, 1976 [9] Bill Mather-Brown: 0 2 0 Table tennis 1960, 1968 [9] Tim Matthews: 3 0 2 Athletics 1996, 2000 [9] Marty Mayberry: 0 1 ...
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.
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.