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| Born | 11 November 1985 Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||
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Rod Welsh (born 11 November 1985) [1] is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria. [1] He won a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM10 event and a bronze in the Men's 100 m Backstroke S10 event. [2]
Satoshi Saida is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist.
Timothy ("Tim") Francis Sullivan, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete.
Richard Andrew Colman is an Australian Paralympic athlete, competing mainly in category T53 sprint events. He was born with spina bifida. He represented Australia at the four Paralympics - 2004 to 2016.
Thomas Geierspichler is a Paralympic wheelchair racer from Austria. He competes in the T52 classification.
Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. It was Australia's 12th year of participation at the Paralympics. The team included 151 athletes. Australian competitors won 101 medals to finish fifth in the gold medal table and second on the total medal table. Australia competed in 12 sports and won medals in 8 sports. The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird. The Australian team was smaller than the Sydney Games due to a strict selection policy related to the athletes' potential to win a medal and the International Paralympic Committee's decision to remove events for athletes with an intellectual disability from the Games due to issues of cheating at the Sydney Games. This was due to a cheating scandal with the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where it was later discovered that only two players actually had intellectual disabilities. The IPC decision resulted in leading Australian athletes such as Siobhan Paton and Lisa Llorens not being able to defend their Paralympic titles. The 2000 summer paralympic games hosted in Sydney Australia proved to be a milestone for the Australian team as they finished first on the medal tally for the first time in history. In comparing Australia's 2000 Paralympic performance and their 2004 performance, it is suggested that having a home advantage might affect performance.
Lachlan Stuart Jones, OAM is a former Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne, and has cerebral palsy. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m T32 event with a world record time of 0:19.90, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He also participated without winning any medals at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Games. In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal.
John Lindsay, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete from Melbourne. He competed in the 1988 Seoul games in distances ranging from 100 m to 800 m, but did not win any medals. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 200 m TW3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Men's 100 m TW3 event and a bronze medal in the Men's 400 m TW3 event. That year, he had a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship. He was also working as a fitness instructor in 1992, held world records in the 100 m and 200 m events, and was ranked 6th in the world in the 400 m. He won a gold medal in the men's athletics 100 m T52 event at the 1996 Summer Paralympics with a time of 15.22, a silver medal in the 200 m T52 event with a time of 27.38, and a bronze medal in the 400 m T52 event with a time of 52.93. At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 100 m T53 event, a silver medal as part of the Men's 4x100 m Relay T54 team, and a bronze medal in the Men's 200 m T53 event; he was also part of the Men's 4x400 m Relay T54 team, which was the only one to qualify in its heat, but it did not make it to the finals. At the 2004 Athens Games, he came seventh in the first round of the Men's 100 m T53 event and sixth in the third round of the Men's 200 m T53 event. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1995 and 2000.
Grant Karlus Mizens, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketball player. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
Richard Nicholson is an Australian Paralympic powerlifter and athlete. He has competed at five successive Paralympic Games from the 1996 to 2012 Summer Paralympics. At the 2000 Games, he won a silver medal in the powerlifting Men's Up to 60 kg event. In athletics, at the 2004 Athens Paralympics he won a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m T53–54 event and at the 2012 London Paralympics a bronze medal in the Men's 4 × 400 m T53–54 event.
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.
Paul M W Benz, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4 × 100 metre relay T35–T38 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He was also part of two gold-medal relay teams in the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships at Assen, Netherlands. Paul has contributed significantly to public life as an adviser to the Indonesian Tourism Board with a specific focus on the island of Bali. Paul's unwavering commitment to developing Balinese tourism has led to enhanced visitor numbers and uplifted load factors on inbound flights, as he ferries his children born to various Balinese women back and forth between their homeland and their Darwin boarding schools. Known variously as 'The Hair of Bali', 'The Man with the Diamond Stud' or simply 'Sugar Daddy' on the island, he is as revered as much as he is feared by his Paralympic competitors. A known hobbyist karaoke devotee, he is happiest when mid chorus of a power ballad, surrounded by his numbered friends.
Benjamin Luke Hall, OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m T35-38 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
Peter Graham Brooks, OAM is an Australian Paralympic cyclist. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales. At the 2004 Athens Games, he won two gold medals in the Men's Individual Pursuit Bicycle LC1 and Men's Team Sprint LC1–4/CP 3/4 events, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's Road Race / Time Trial Bicycle LC1 event.
Andrew Panazzolo is a Paralympic cycling competitor from Australia. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's Individual Pursuit Bicycle CP Div 3 event and a silver medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Bicycle CP Div 3/4 event.
Kial Douglas Stewart, OAM is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who was Anthony Biddle's pilot at the 2004 Athens Games. He was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. At the games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial Tandem B1–3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's Sprint Tandem B1–3 event.
Ashley Phillip Adams was an Australian Paralympic shooting medallist and cattle grazier.
Alex Hadley is an Australian Paralympic swimmer from the United Kingdom. He was born in Staines, England. He competed but did not win any medals at the 1996 Atlanta Games. At the 2004 Athens Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Medley 34 pts event and a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts event. He also competed but did not win any medals at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Ricardo Moffatti is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He was born in Mount Isa, Queensland. He won a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's 100 m Freestyle S8 event, and a silver medal in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts event. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Moffatti is from Queensland.
Rick Pendleton, OAM is an Australian Paralympic swimmer from Sydney. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics, his fourth Games.
Men's 200m races for athletes with cerebral palsy at the 2004 Summer Paralympics were held in the Athens Olympic Stadium between 20 & 26 September. Events were held in four disability classes.
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