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Australia was ranked 2nd in the final medal table with 106 overall medals; 42 gold; 37 silver; 27 bronze. This success has been attributed to the introduction of the Australian Paralympic Committee's Paralympic Preparation Program. [31] Australia's team was half that of the host nation who lead the final medal table. [31]
Australia won 10 gold, 9 silver and 7 bronze medals. Australian athletes set six world records, a further three Paralympic records and 16 Australian records during the Games. Heath Francis and Evan O'Hanlon won three gold medals. [2] [10] Detailed Australian Results
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 met this target, with Milton winning silver in the downhill and Toby Kane winning bronze in super-G. [18] At the 2010 Vancouver Games , Jessica Gallagher became the first female Australian Paralympian to win a medal with a bronze medal in the Women's Vision-Impaired Slalom event.
Australia national wheelchair rugby team represents Australia in international wheelchair rugby, is sport with national representation at the Paralympic Games. The Australian Team is known as the 'Steelers'. [1] Australia has competed at every Paralympics Games since the sport gained full Paralympic Medal status at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. [2]
Long before the Paralympic Games, American gymnast George Eyser, who had a wooden leg, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and won three gold medals, two silver and a bronze, including a gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. There have also been other amputee medallists at the ...
The Asian nation’s investment into sporting infrastructure is also a boon; Chinese Paralympians are able to train at the world’s largest training facility for elite athletes with disabilities ...
List of Australian Paralympians that have competed in multiple sports at the Summer or Winter Paralympic Games. Several athletes have competed at both the Winter and Summer Paralympics. Five athletes have won gold medals in more than one sport: Daphne Ceeney - Swimming (1960) and Table tennis (1964)