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Rio 2016: Dylan Alcott – Wheelchair tennis
Elite athlete Dylan Alcott OAM has had spectacular success, winning gold medals for both wheelchair tennis and basketball. He has also won the French and US Open, Wimbledon and Australian Open grand...
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Beijing 2008: Kurt Fearnley – wheelchair racing
Kurt Fearnley AO is one of Australia’s most recognised and successful athletes. Fearnley won an impressive 13 medals across 5 Paralympics wheelchair racing events from Sydney 2000 to Rio 2016 – 3 of...
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Tokyo 2020: Dan Michel – Boccia
Dan Michel is an up-and-coming Australian boccia champion. He is competing in his second Paralympics at the Tokyo 2020 Games. His physical impairment is called spinal muscular atrophy type 2 – a...
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Sydney 2000: Changing Community Attitudes
There is a palpable sense of excitement in ABC newsreader Angela Pearman’s opening remarks on the success of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This story had top billing on ABC News...
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London 2012: Matt Cowdrey, Maddison Elliott – Paralympic swimming
Swimmer Matt Cowdrey OAM holds the record for the most medals won by an Australian Paralympic athlete with 23 medals in total, 13 of them gold. He competed at 3 Paralympic Games – Athens 2004, Bejing...
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Rio 2016: Ahmed Kelly – Paralympic swimming
Elite swimmer Ahmed Kelly, whose nickname is 'liquid nails', is representing Australia at his third Paralympic Games in Tokyo. An Iraqi orphan, Kelly was born with double below-elbow and above-knee...
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Sydney 2000: Louise Sauvage, Siobhan Paton and wheelchair rugby
This round-up of the final day of the Sydney 2000 Paralympics from New 10 Perth News, broadcast on 29 October 2000, highlights two of the 'golden girls' of the outstanding 2000 Paralympic team....
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Beijing 2008: Tahlia Rotumah – Paralympic sprinter
Tahlia Rotumah is a Minyanbal woman from Tweed Heads in NSW. She became the first Indigenous woman to represent Australia at the Paralympics in a track and field event when she competed in Beijing in...
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London 2012: Liesl Tesch and Daniel Fitzgibbon – Paralympic sailing
Today host Karl Stefanovic introduces this profile on the Paralympic sailing dream team of Liesl Tesch AM MP and Daniel Fitzgibbon OAM, after a mention of Matt Cowdrey’s spectacular success at the...
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Lillehammer 1994: Michael Milton – Paralympic skiing
Skiing champion Michael Milton OAM is Australia’s most successful Winter Paralympic medallist with 11 medals in total, 6 of them gold. The Canberra local, who had his left leg amputated above the...
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