Paralympic gold medallists Kelly Cartwright and Evan O'Hanlon have taken out the top awards for athletes with a disability at Athletics Australia's Athlete of the Year awards in Melbourne last night.
Cartwright earned her accolade as Female Athlete with a Disability of the Year after winning a gold and silver medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games, while O’Hanlon picked up Male Athlete with a Disability after he won two gold medals across 100m and 200m in London.
Cartwright's...
Australian Paralympic Committee President Greg Hartung has congratulated Paralympic swimmer Jacqueline Freney, who was last night awarded the Prime Minister’s Women in Sport Award.
Freney accepted the award from the Minister for Sport, Senator Kate Lundy at the Women’s Health Magazine ‘I Support Women in Sport’ Awards held at Paddington Town Hall in Sydney.
“This is an outstanding achievement for Jacqueline and is something of which the entire Australian Paralympic movement...
The Australian Paralympic Committee is saddened by the passing of Australian Paralympic cyclist, Janet Shaw.
Shaw, who competed at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games as a vision impaired tandem cyclist alongside her pilot Kelly McCombie, won two bronze medals in the individual pursuit and road race/time trial.
The Western Australian passed away, aged 46, after a long battle with cancer.
Australian Paralympic Committee CEO, Jason Hellwig, has paid tribute to Shaw...
More than 2,400 athletes with a disability have been given the opportunity to further their sporting careers thanks to the Australian Paralympic Committee’s (APC) national classification program.
Since 2006, the program has facilitated the national classification of more than 2,400 Australian athletes with a disability, allowing them to compete at state and national level competitions.
But perhaps most importantly, more than 800 of the group are currently school-aged...
To mark the United Nation’s International Day for Persons with Disabilities, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched a short online film “London 2012 – Best Games Ever”, featuring spectacular highlights from this year’s Paralympics.
The film, which can be viewed at http://bit.ly/BestGamesEver takes viewers through a rollercoaster of emotions: disappointment, anger, relief, joy, delight and...
After helping her team to a silver medal in London, three-time Paralympian Tina McKenzie has announced her decision to retire from the Australian Gliders women’s wheelchair basketball team.
McKenzie was a member of the Gliders team that came agonisingly close to winning Australia’s first ever women’s Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair basketball when they were narrowly defeated by Germany in the championship match in London earlier this year.
The 38-year-old primary school...
The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) has welcomed the new business model for Australia’s high performance sport sector which was outlined today by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).
APC President Greg Hartung said the plan rightfully acknowledges the importance of Paralympic success to Australian sport.
Titled Australia’s Winning Edge 2012-2022, the high performance plan has set a target for Australia to be a top five nation at the summer Olympics and Paralympics...
Wheelchair basketballers Grant Mizens and Brett Stibners have called time on their stellar international playing careers with the Australian men’s team, the Rollers.
The NSW pair are both eager to spend more quality time with their young families.
While their departure will leave the Rollers with two vacant spots, the pair is confident the future for the Beijing 2008 gold medallists and 2010 world championship winning side has never looked better.
Mizens, who...
The accolades keep coming for Australian Paralympian of the Year Jacqueline Freney.
The eight-time gold medallist was crowned AWD Swimmer of the Year at Swimming Australia’s gala awards dinner at the weekend, continuing an outstanding year for the 20-year-old.
Since returning from London where she won more medals than any other athlete at the entire Paralympic Games, Freney and her father and coach Michael Freney’s winning ways have continued through to the end-of-year...
Pararoos player Chris Pyne has been named Pararoos Footballer of the Year at the fourth annual Australian Football Awards this week.
Held at the Sofitel Hotel in Sydney, the award adds to Pyne's glittering 14 year international career.
A member of the Pararoos since 1998 when the side was first formed, he is the most capped Australian player with a total of 77 appearances to his name and is currently the Vice Captain of the National Team.
In 2012, the Pararoos...
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