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Australia At The 2020 Summer Paralympics
Australia participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. It sent its largest away team - 179 athletes to a Summer Paralympics. Australia finished eighth on the gold medal table and sixth on the total medals table. In May 2017, Paralympics Australia announced Kate McLoughlin as the Chef de Mission, McLoughlin held the position at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. In November 2019, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and table tennis player Daniela di Toro, were named as co-captains. They were also named as joint flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony. Ellie Cole was the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony. Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian during the Games with her silver and bronze medals in swimming taking her to 17 Paralympic medals. Notable achievements at the Games: * Multiple gold medallists: William Martin (swimming) - 3 gold, 1 silver ; Madison de Rozario (athletics) - 2 gold, 1 bronze ; Curtis McGrath (c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paralympics Australia
Paralympics Australia (PA) previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) (1998–2019) 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. APC played a major role in Australia's successful bid to host the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. Since the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Australia has finished in the top five nations on the medal tally. It is also a successful nation at the Winter Paralympics. Membership The PA is a company limited by guarantee and its shareholders are national sports federations and national sporting organisations for the disabled. These organisations are: Athletics Australia, Australian Shooting International Limited, AUSRAPID, Basketball Australia, Blind Sports Australia, Boccia Australia, Cerebral Palsy – Australian Sport and Recreation Federation, Cycling Australia, Disabled W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Low
Vanessa Low (born 17 July 1990) is a German-born Australian Paralympic athlete competing in T42 sprint and long jump events. Born in East Germany, she gained Australian nationality in June 2017. In 2016, Low was the only actively competing female track athlete with two above-knee amputations of her legs. Despite the location of these amputations and despite her having to compete with athletes having one fully functional leg, she successfully made it to the finals of all of her sprint and long jump competitions at both the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London and the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio. In Rio she won the gold medal with a 4.93m world record distance in the T42 long jump and a silver medal in the T42 100m competition. This was repeated in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo with the T63 long jump gold medal and world record even though she was classified T61. Personal history Low was born on 17 July 1990 in Schwerin, East Germany, and grew up in Ratzeburg. In June 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia At The 2020 Summer Paralympics
Australia participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. It sent its largest away team - 179 athletes to a Summer Paralympics. Australia finished eighth on the gold medal table and sixth on the total medals table. In May 2017, Paralympics Australia announced Kate McLoughlin as the Chef de Mission, McLoughlin held the position at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. In November 2019, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and table tennis player Daniela di Toro, were named as co-captains. They were also named as joint flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony. Ellie Cole was the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony. Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian during the Games with her silver and bronze medals in swimming taking her to 17 Paralympic medals. Notable achievements at the Games: * Multiple gold medallists: William Martin (swimming) - 3 gold, 1 silver ; Madison de Rozario (athletics) - 2 gold, 1 bronze ; Curtis McGrath (c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Michel
Daniel Michel (born 18 August 1995) is an Australian boccia player. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He won the bronze medal in the Mixed B3 at the Tokyo Paralympics. Early life Michel was born on 18 August 1995 in the eastern Sydney suburb of Maroubra, New South Wales, before his family relocated to the Sutherland Shire in the early 2000s. His mother is of Dutch origin, having been born in The Netherlands and immigrating to Australia in the early 1990s, whilst his father is Australian. He was born with spinal muscular atrophy which means he has minimal movement and strength throughout his body. Daniel attended Heathcote High School and graduated in 2013. Boccia Michel was introduced to boccia as a 15 year old through a Muscular Dystrophy NSW camp. He is classified as a BC3 athlete. He came third in his first junior titles and this gave him the encouragement to increase his training. This led to him winning the junior title at hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia At The 1996 Summer Paralympics
The 1996 Summer Paralympics were held in the United States city of Atlanta. Australia competed in 13 of the 17 sports, winning medals in 10 of those sports. At the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Australia had the second highest medal tally of any country competing. It won 42 gold, 37 silver and 27 bronze medals. It surpassed the 24 gold medals that Australia won at the 1992 Paralympics. The sports of athletics, swimming and cycling provided Australia with the majority of its medals. Background In September 1993 the IOC announced that Sydney was the winning bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the International Paralympic Committee announced Sydney would also be the host of the 2000 Summer Paralympics. This led to the Australian Government establishing the Olympic Athlete Program (OAP), funded and supported through the Australian Sports Commission, to prepare Australia's competitors for these games. The Australian Paralympic Federation (APF) started receiving money from the OAP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janine Watson
Janine Watson (born 4 June 1981) is Australia's first taekwondo Paralympian. She won one of the bronze medals in the women's +58 kg event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is also an Australian wheelchair tennis champion. Personal Watson was born on 4 June 1981. She grew up in a small rural town in south-western Queensland. At school, she played netball and tennis at state and then national levels. She completed a double degree in Exercise Science and Secondary Education. At the age of 25, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She works full-time as Head of Department for Maths and Science at one of Brisbane's most prestigious schools. Her philosophy is "Do what I can, as well as I can, for as long as I can". Taekwondo After her multiple sclerosis diagnosis, she took up taekwondo and within nine months she had won her first Australian championships. Her major international results: *2014 Commonwealth Championship Scotland – Gold P34 para-poomsae *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Hance
Benjamin "Ben" Hance (born 25 July 2000) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he won a gold and bronze medal. Swimming career He is classified as a S14 swimmer. In 2021, Hance holds the world record for the Men's 100 m Backstroke (S14) by swimming a time of 58.88 (1019 points) at the 2021 Australian Multi-Class Swimming Championships . At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, Hance won the gold medal in the Men's 100 m backstroke S14 with a personal best time of 57.73. He also won a bronze medal in the Men's 100 m butterfly S14 with a time of 56.90, less than 2 seconds behind the winner, Gabriel Bandeira from Brazil. At the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships, Madeira, Hance won four medals - gold in the Men's 100m Backstroke S14, silver in Mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle relay S14 and Mixed 4 × 100 m medley relay S14 and bronze in the Men's 200 m Freestyle S14 In the medley he teamed up with Madeleine McTernan, Ricky Betar, and Ruby Storm. They w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Hicks
Darren Michael Hicks (born 3 December 1984) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who has won medals at several World Road and Track Championships. His right leg was amputated above the knee as a consequence of a road crash in 2014. At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he won a gold and a silver medal. Personal Hicks was born 23 December 1984. In August 2014, he was driving a sewage waste truck downhill on Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway. He lost control of the truck due to faulty brakes and the resulting crash at Glen Osmond killed two people. A report prepared for the court in 2017 concluded the truck's brakes were faulty and that neither Hicks nor Cleanaway were aware and police charges were dropped in January 2019. The accident result in Hicks having his right leg amputated. Hicks had held his heavy vehicle licence for a month, and it was his fifth day working for that employer. It was the first day he had been alone on the job, and he was assigned an older, different model of tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Reid
Amanda Reid (born 12 November 1996) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and cyclist. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3 and at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics a gold medal in 500 m Time Trial C1–3. Personal Reid was born on 12 November 1996 with spastic quadriplegia and an intellectual disability. She is from Blaxland, New South Wales. Reid has heritage from the Wemba-Wemba and Guringai people. She attended Blaxland High School and Endeavour Sports High School. Career Swimming Reid was an S14 classified swimmer. She was classified as an S8 swimmer for the 2015 New South Wales Multi-Class Championships. She was a member of Woy Woy Swim club. At the 2010 Australian All Schools Swimming Championships, she won ten medals, eight of which were gold. She competed at the 2011 Global Games as a fourteen-year-old. She was selected to represent A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Petricola
Emily Petricola (born 24 April 1980) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. She is a world record holder and gold medallist at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. Personal In 2007 at the age of 27, Petricola was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She used to teach English in a private school. She is a qualified English and humanities teacher. Cycling Petricola is classified as a C4 cyclist. In her first major international competition at the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she won the silver medal in Women's Pursuit C4 and the bronze medal in the Women's 500m Time Trial. In the Women's Pursuit C4 heats she set a world record time of 3:54.501. In 2019, she relocated from Melbourne to the Australian Cycling Team headquarters in Adelaide. At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won the gold medal in the Women's Pursuit C4. After breaking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paige Greco
Paige Greco (born 19 February 1997) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who won gold medals at the 2019 World Track Championships in C1-3 women's pursuit 2020 Summer Paralympics, 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She broke the World Record setting a new one of 3:52.283 in the 3000m individual pursuit at the Tokyo Paralympics. Personal life Greco has cerebral palsy which mainly affects the right side of her body. She has completed an Exercise Science Degree at the University of South Australia. Cycling Greco is classified as a C3 (classification), C3 cyclist. Before turning to cycling, Greco was a promising track and field athlete. In 2018, Greco moved from Victoria to South Australian Sports Institute to be coached by Loz Shaw. At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won gold medals in the Women's 3 km Pursuit C3 and C3 500m Time Trial. In qualifying for Women's 3 km Pursuit final, Greco's time of 4mins 0.206secs broke the existin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
