| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  Australia |
| Born | 5 August 1973 |
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Shane Brand (born 5 August 1973) [1] is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby player. He is quadriplegic due to a motor vehicle accident. [1] He won a silver medal with the Australian Steelers at the 2008 Beijing Games. [2]
Bradley John Ness, OAM is an Australian wheelchair basketballer. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing and silver medals at 2004 Athens and 2012 London Paralympics. He was selected as the Australian flag bearer at the Opening Ceremony at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. In December 2023, Ness was appointed the Head Coach of the Rollers - Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team.
Michaël Jérémiasz is a French former professional wheelchair tennis player. He won a gold medal in the men's doubles event at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and has completed the career Super Slam in doubles. Jérémiasz has been ranked world No. 1 in both doubles and singles. He is right-handed and likes hard courts. He was coached by Jerome Delbert.
Satoshi Saida is a Japanese pioneering wheelchair tennis player and 2004 Summer Paralympics gold medalist.
Australia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country sent 167 athletes in 13 sports and 122 officials. It was the country's largest ever Paralympic delegation to an away Games. The team sent to Beijing was described as the emergence of the new generation of Australian athletes with 56 percent of the team attending their first Paralympic Games. The delegation's chef de mission was Darren Peters.
Malta competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China from 6 to 17 September 2008. This was the island nation's seventh appearance at a Summer Paralympic Games since their debut in 1960, but their first since the 1984 Summer Paralympics 24 years earlier. Antonio Flores, a runner, was the only athlete to represent Malta at the Games, having qualified via the 2008 British Open Athletics Championships. At the Paralympics, Flores did not qualify for the final of the men's 100 metres T44 event after placing 11th overall in the competition and fifth in his heat during the heat stages; the fastest four participants in his heat advanced to the final.
André Brasil Esteves is a Paralympic swimmer from Brazil. He had poliomyelitis as a child. He competes in the S10 classification.
Sofiane Hamdi is a Paralympic athlete from Algeria competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
Julie Smith is a Paralympian athlete from Australia competing mainly in category T46 sprint events.
Fanie Lombaard is an athlete and Paralympian from South Africa competing in P42 pentathlon and F42 throwing events.
Brad Dubberley is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair rugby Head Coach and former athlete. He won a silver medal as an athlete at the 2000 Sydney Games and was the head coach at the 2008 Beijing Games in the mixed wheelchair rugby event. He is the head coach of the Australian Wheelchair Rugby team known as the Australian Steelers.
Mark le Flohic, OAM is a Paralympic cyclist from Western Australia, Australia.
Jay Dohnt is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. He is a bilateral below the knee amputee as a result of meningococcal disease at the age of thirteen. He is also missing four fingers on his right hand. He chose swimming as legs were not required to do it and obtained a scuba diving ticket.
Ryan Scott, is a Paralympic wheelchair rugby competitor from Australia. In four Paralympics, Scott has won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics and gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Christopher "Chris" James Mullins, OAM is an Australian Paralympic cerebral palsy track and field athlete. He won a gold medal and broke the world record at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 4 × 100 m T35-38 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia.
Steven George is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot, who piloted Bryce Lindores at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. He won a bronze medal at the games in the Men's Individual Pursuit B VI 1–3 event, with the pair beating their personal best time by six seconds.
Tyson John Lawrence, OAM is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot, who worked with Kieran Modra at the 2008 Beijing Games. At the games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Individual Pursuit B VI 1-3 event, for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a bronze medal in the Men's 1 km Time Trial B VI 1-3 event.
Katie Parker is an Australian Paralympic tandem cycling pilot. She won a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Games with Felicity Johnson in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B VI 1–3 event.
Colin Anthony Harrison is an Australian Paralympic sailor. He won the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in the Three Person Sonar.
Russell Boaden is a Paralympic sailor from Australia. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, and a won a gold medal in the Mixed Three Person Sonar the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
S9, SB8, SM9 are para-swimming classifications used for categorizing swimmers based on their level of disability. Swimmers in this class generally have severe weakness in one leg. This class includes a number of different disabilities including people with amputations and cerebral palsy. The classification is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, and competes at the Paralympic Games.
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