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Petrea Barker (born 18 September 1975) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Women's 100 m Freestyle MH event. [1] She was born on 18 September 1975. [2] She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder from 1998 to 1999. [3]
Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach.
Christie Dawes is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete. She has won three medals in athletics at seven Paralympics from 1996 to 2021.
Priya Naree Cooper, is an Australian world champion disabled swimmer, winning nine Paralympic gold medals as well as world records and world championships. She competed in the Australian swimming team at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics with an S8 classification. She was twice the co-captain of the Australian Paralympic team, including at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, and carried the Australian flag at the closing ceremonies for the 1992 and 1996 Summer Paralympics. Cooper has cerebral palsy and spends much of her time in a wheelchair. She attended university, working on a course in health management. After she ended her competitive Paralympic career, she became a commentator, and covered the swimming events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM(born 17 January 1978) is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Canberra. She specialises in Paralympic high jumping, long jumping, and sprinting, participating in competitions for athletes with autism.
Elizabeth "Libby" Dudley Kosmala, OAM is an Australian shooter with paraplegia. She represented Australia at twelve Paralympics from 1972 to 2016, and won thirteen medals, nine of them gold.
Trischa Zorn is an American Paralympic swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming. She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals, and was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2012. She took the Paralympic Oath for athletes at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta.
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.
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.
Ryley Batt, is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He has won two gold and one silver medal at five Paralympic Games.
Katrina Lea Webb-Denis, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She has won Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games.
Amanda Carter is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player. Diagnosed with transverse myelitis at the age of 24, she began playing wheelchair basketball in 1991 and participated in the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, at three Paralympics from 1992 to 2000. An injury in 2000 forced her to withdraw from the sport, but she came back to the national team in 2009, and was a member of the team that represented Australia and won silver at the 2012 London Paralympics.
Troy Kenneth Andrews, OAM(born 1 December 1961) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and shooter, who has represented Australia at five Paralympics from 1984 to 2000. He was born in the New South Wales city of Broken Hill. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, he came fourth in the Men's Air Pistol 2-6 - event. He was part of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, and 2000 Sydney Games. He won a gold medal as part of the winning Australian team in 1996, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.
Paul Damian Cross, OAM is an Australian swimmer with an intellectual disability. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in two events. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he competed in eight events and won a gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 swimming event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. In 1999, he was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship holder.
Fabian John Blattman, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He became disabled after a motorbike accident. He started playing disabled bowls, before switching to athletics. As a Paralympic athletics competitor, he has set several world records and won two Paralympic gold medals.
Gregory Stephen Smith, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair rugby player who won three gold medals in athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and a gold medal in wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, where he was the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.
Grant Fitzpatrick is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with an intellectual disability. He was born in the Sydney suburb of Blacktown. He won two silver medals at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Men's 100 m Freestyle MH and Men's 50 m Freestyle MH events. He had an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship in 1996. In 1996, he was named Blacktown City Council's Sportsperson of the Year.
Tracey Leanne Oliver, is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was in born in Bundaberg, Queensland. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, she won a bronze medal in Women's 50 m Freestyle S7 event. She also competed in Women's 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke S7 events. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S7 event and also competed in the Women's 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke S7 events. She was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholar holder from 1994 to 1995. She works as a swimming coach in Bundaberg.
Katherine "Kate" Bailey is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia.
Teresa "Terri" Hilda Poole, OAM is an English-born Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist with a vision impairment. She was born in the English city of Manchester. She competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she won two gold medals in the Women's Individual Pursuit Tandem open and the Women's Kilo Tandem open track cycling events, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia. Her pilot was Sandra Smith. She competed in the Women's 50/60k Tandem open event for road cycling but did not medal.
George Colliver Dunstan, AM is an Australian sports administrator who has played a leading role in the development of Paralympic sport in Australia particularly in terms of sport administration.
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