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Australian Paralympic Athletics Team
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. . Notable Australian athletes include: * Neil Fuller, a leg amputee sprinter, has won 15 medals (6 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals) * Louise Sauvage, a female wheelchair racer, has won 13 medals (9 gold and 4 silver medals) * Heath Francis, an arm amputee sprinter, has won 13 medals (6 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals) * Tim Sullivan, a cerebral palsy sprinter has won 10 gold medals. Medal table Rank based on gold medal count. Summer Paralympic Games 1960 Australia represented by: Men – Frank Ponta WA, Gary Hooper NSW Women – Daphne Ceeney NSW 1964 Australia represented by: Men – Gary Hooper Women – Daphne Ceeney, Marion O'Brien, Elaine Schreiber 1968 Australia represented by: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was first time the new Paralympic logo featured in the Summer Paralympics since its rebranding after the 2004 Summer Paralympics. 3,951 athletes from 146 countries took part,"Beijing 2008" the largest number of nations ever (ten more than the 2004 Games in Athens). Five countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Summer Paralympics
) , nations = 136 , athletes = 3,806 , events = 519 in 19 sports , opening = 17 September , closing = 28 September , opened_by = President Costis Stephanopoulos , cauldron = Georgios Toptsis , stadium = Olympic Stadium , summer_prev = Sydney 2000 , summer_next = Beijing 2008 , winter_prev = Salt Lake City 2002 , winter_next = Turin 2006 The 2004 Summer Paralympics ( el, Θερινοί Παραολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece from 17 to 28 September 2004. 3,806 athletes from 136 National Paralympic Committees competed. 519 medal events were held in 19 sports. Four new events were introduced to the Paralympics in Athens; 5-a-side football for the blind, quads wheelchair tennis, and women's competitions in judo and sitting volleyball. Following a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McIntyre (Paralympian)
Robert Lindon McIntyre (1952/1953 – 23 December 1995) nicknamed "Macca", was an Australian Paralympic athlete, wheelchair basketball player and coach. Biography McIntyre was born in Victoria, and was injured in a shooting accident when he was nine years old. His wheelchair basketball career began in 1968 when he represented Victoria at the National Wheelchair Games, where he was voted "best and fairest". He was then selected for the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, where he won a gold medal in the Men's Slalom B event and participated in the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team; he would go on to win medals at athletics events at every Paralympics until 1984, and participate in Australia's wheelchair basketball squad at every games until 1980. At the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Slalom 5 event, but did not win any medals at the 1976 Toronto Games. He also represented Australia at the 1970 Edinburgh and 1974 Dunedin Commonwealth P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Mather-Brown
William "Bill" Edgar Mather-Brown (born 14 April 1936) is an Australian Paralympian. Personal He was born in the Western Australian city of Fremantle in 1936. He contracted polio in 1938 aged 2 in the town of Agnew in the Goldfields, Northeast of Kalgoorlie. He spent 2 years in the Kalgoorlie Hospital before moving back to Perth. He married Nadine Vine on 6 January 1967, who attended the 1972 Heidelberg Games as a team nurse. They had two children. Paralympic Games He has always been interested in sport and joined wheelchair sports in 1955. He went to the Stoke Mandeville games in 1957 and competed in several sports. At the 1960 Rome Paralympics, he won a silver medal in Men's Class B table tennis with Bruno Moretti and participated in the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team. At the 1964 Tokyo Paralympics, he participated in wheelchair fencing as part of the Men's Épée Team. At the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, he won a silver medal in the Men's Slalom A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Martin (Paralympian)
John Martin (born 1943) is an Australian Paralympic archer, athlete, table tennis player, wheelchair basketballer and wheelchair fencer who won three silver medals at five Paralympics. He was born in England and emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of 13. Personal Martin was born in the English town of Eastleigh in 1943, as the youngest of three children. His father was a carpenter, aircraft mechanic and keen soccer player and his mother was a homemaker. While in England he attended The Crescent Primary School and Toynbee Road Secondary Boys School, where he played soccer and cricket and was a cross-country runner. He moved with his family to Australia in 1956 at the age of 13; they emigrated there due to Martin's sister's rheumatic fever. They moved to the Sydney suburb of Riverstone where he attended Richmond High School. He left school at the age of almost fifteen to work at a timber yard with his father. In November 1961, aged 18, he contracted polio. He marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Cunningham (Paralympian)
Kevin Cunningham (11 August 1939 – 4 January 2023) was an Australian Paralympic athlete. A member of Australia's first Paralympic Games team, he participated at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, 1960 Rome and 1968 Summer Paralympics, 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympic Games. Personal Kevin Cunningham was born in Perth, Western Australia on 11 August 1939. His parents were Irene and Edward. His mother Irene died when he was six and was brought up by his grandmother. He attended Jolimont School and Perth Technical College. He undertook an apprenticeship at SW Hart & Company. In 1957, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident and thrown out of T-Model Ford. He was in a coma for three weeks. His rehabilitation was undertaken at the Royal Perth Hospital#Shenton Park, Shenton Park Rehabilitation Centre. In 1966, he married Maureen, a nurse from Shenton Park Rehabilitation Centre. Cunningham died on 4 January 2023, at the age of 83. Career Paralympic Games Cunningham's interest in Paraly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Coombs
Kevin Richard Coombs, Order of Australia, OAM Paralympic_symbols#Postnominal, PLY (born 30 May 1941) is an Australian wheelchair basketballer and athlete who competed at 5 Paralympics including the first Paralympic Games in 1960. He was the first Australian Aboriginal Paralympic competitor for Australia. Personal Coombs was born on 30 May 1941 in the Victorian town of Swan Hill, Victoria, Swan Hill, to Cecil Coombs and Rosie Clayton. After losing his mother at age five, he and his four siblings lived with relatives in the New South Wales town of Balranald, New South Wales, Balranald. He grew up in rural Victoria in a large family. He became a paraplegic at the age of 12 when he was accidentally shot in the back while out shooting rabbits. He spent time at the Royal Austin Rehabilitation Hospital in Melbourne where he was introduced to sport as part of his rehabilitation program. One of the sports that he competed in was wheelchair basketball. He competed in the first Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Schreiber
Elaine Annette Schreiber (4 June 1939 – 11 June 2017) was an Australian Paralympic table tennis player and field games athlete. She contracted Poliomyelitis as a child. Schreiber, who lived most of her life in Armadale Victoria, was a typist / telephonist employed by the St Kilda City Council, St Kilda Victoria. She worked in the Town Clerk's department for 17 years prior to the 1964 Summer Paralympics. Australian athletes at these games included quadriplegic Allan McLucas, the first quadriplegic to compete at International Paralympic Games. Schreiber, a member of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of Victoria, assisted with the fundraising to build a new hostel for quadriplegics to provide better living conditions and care under organised supervision. Schreiber was selected to represent Victoria at the three day event of the Australian Paraplegic Games held in Adelaide, South Australia, September 1964. She was among the first sixteen gold medal athletes from Victoria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion O'Brien
Marion O'Brien is an Australian Paralympic table tennis player and athlete. At the 1964 Tokyo Games, she won a gold medal in the women's doubles C event with Daphne Ceeney, a silver medal in the women's javelin C event, and a bronze medal in the women's singles C event. At the 1968 Tel Aviv Games, she won a silver medal in the women's doubles C event with Elaine Schreiber, and a bronze medal in the women's slalom C event. References Year of birth missing (living people) Australian female javelin throwers Australian female table tennis players Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Paralympic athletes for Australia Table tennis players at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Table tennis players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Paralympic table tennis players for Australia Medalists at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Ceeney
Daphne Jean Hilton (née Ceeney; 7 January 1934 – 25 July 2016) was an Australian Paralympic competitor. She was the first Australian woman to compete at the Paralympic Games. She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968. Personal Ceeney was born in the New South Wales town of Harden-Murrumburrah on 7 January 1934, as the eldest of four children. She became a paraplegic after breaking her back in a horse-riding accident in 1951 at the age of 17. She spent 9 months in Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before returning to Murrumburrah. Eight years after the accident, she moved to Sydney, where she spent six months at the Cherrywood Rehabilitation Centre and then one year at Mt Wilga Rehabilitation Hospital. While living at the rehabilitation hospital, she developed her sporting ability and skills. She was selected as Australia's only female athlete at the 1960 Rome Paralympics. In 1967, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Hooper (Paralympian)
Gary Leslie Hooper, MBE (born 11 February 1939) is an Australian Paralympic competitor. He won seven medals at three Paralympics from 1960 to 1968. Personal Hooper was born on 11 February 1939 in Sydney. He never knew his biological father, and lived with his stepfather. He grew up near Newcastle in Toronto. He contracted polio at the age of eleven, and lost the use of both his legs. At 16, he attended a live-in rehabilitation centre at the former naval base in Jervis Bay, where he learned a range of trade crafts, including metalwork, woodwork and leatherwork. All students at the centre were encouraged to become as physically fit as possible. After the centre was moved to the Mount Wilga Rehabilitation Hospital in Hornsby, Hooper became involved in wheelchair sport competitions and was successful from the outset. Hooper trained to become a bookbinder and worked for 25 years at the Newcastle Public Library. He volunteered as the welfare officer for the Foundation for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Ponta
Francis Ettore Ponta (8 November 1935 – 1 June 2011) was an Australian Paralympic competitor and coach. He competed in several sports including basketball, pentathlon, swimming and fencing. A paraplegic, he lost the use of both his legs after a tumour was removed from his spinal column when he was a teenager. Ponta was a member of Australia's first national wheelchair basketball team, and is credited with expanding the sport of wheelchair basketball in Western Australia. At the end of his competitive career, he became a coach, working with athletes such as Louise Sauvage, Priya Cooper, Madison de Rozario, Bruce Wallrodt and Bryan Stitfall. He died on 1 June 2011 at the age of 75 after a long illness. Early life and athletic career Ponta was born in the Perth suburb of Subiaco on 8 November 1935, as the eldest of nine children. In 1947 he moved to Geraldton because his father had a job there in the building trade. He attended Christian Brothers schools in Leederville and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
