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Full name | Rebecca Elizabeth Feldman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 8 February 1982 Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rebecca Elizabeth Feldman, OAM [1] (born 8 February 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria) [2] is a wheelchair racer from Victoria, Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's 400 m T34 event, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, [1] a silver medal in the 100m T34 event and a bronze medal in the 200m T34 event. [3] In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal. [4]
After her career as a Paralympian, Rebecca became involved in disability advocacy, including with young people and people with multiple and complex disabilities. Her roles have included individual and systemic advocacy, case management, peer group facilitation and community development across the disability service provision and local government sectors. She has worked on a range of projects including housing, access to live music, short-film and volunteering as well as staff and customer training.
Rebecca is currently part of Leadership Victoria’s disability leadership program. [5]
Rebecca is also active in the leadership of Neighbourhood Connect Inc, an Australian charity and national not-for-profit community organisation that facilitates the re-connection [6] of people in their local neighbourhoods, as advocated by Hugh Mackay. [7]
Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach.
Stephen Robert Eaton, OAM is an Australian athlete with cerebral palsy from Toowoomba, Queensland who competes at the national and international level in discus throwing and shot put at events such as the Paralympic Games and IPC Athletics World Championships.
Melissa Paula Carlton, OAM is a South African-born Australian swimmer. Born with no right leg and short fingers on her left hand, she won gold, silver and bronze medals for Australia at both the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
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.
Nicholas Hugh "Nick" Morris, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was born in the Victorian town of Wangaratta. He was a member of the Australian team that won gold at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He was also a member of the Australian wheelchair basketball squad at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. Morris was injured in a motorcycle accident at age 16 and credits his involvement in sport as the key to his rehabilitation.
Jodi Glenda Willis-Roberts, OAM is a visually impaired Australian Paralympic athlete and goalballer.
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.
Julie Elizabeth Higgins, OAM is an Australian equestrian rider who won two gold medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.
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.
Amy Louise Winters, OAM is an arm amputee Australian Paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at three Paralympic Games, including five gold medals.
Paul Graham Frederick Mitchell, OAM is a Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability from Western Australia, Australia.
Geoffrey Douglas Trappett, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete who won three medals over two Paralympics.
Hamish Anderson MacDonald, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne and lives in Canberra. He has cerebral palsy. His achievements and advocacy have made him one of Australia's most respected Paralympians.
Gemma Joan Dashwood, is an Australian Paralympic swimmer, medical doctor and ordained Deacon in the Anglican church. She was born in Canberra. She competed in the Les autres disability category due to her septic arthritis.
Stewart Alan Pike, OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and was born in the New South Wales city of Taree. Pike has an intellectual disability and took up swimming to overcome his life frustrations. He attended Weston Primary School and Kurri Kurri High School. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle S14 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a silver medal in the Men's 200 m Medley SM14 event. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal and an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship. In 2001, he was awarded the Cessnock City Council Australia Day Sports Award. In 2006, he was an inaugural inductee in the Cessnock Hall of Fame.
Anton James Flavel, OAM is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. He was born in the Western Australian town of Narrogin. In his disability class he held a world record for the javelin and an Australian record in the shot put and high jump.
Marie Therese Little OAM was a leading Australian sport administrator particularly in the area of disability sport. She was President of the Australian Paralympic Federation and AUSRAPID.
Robyn Smith OAM is a leading Australian sport administrator particularly in the area for disability sport. In 2021, she was elected as an Independent Member on the Governing Board of the International Paralympic Committee.