Australia at the Paralympic Games
Australia has participated at every Summer Paralympic Games since the first in 1960, and all Winter Paralympic Games except the 1976 Winter Paralympics.
The team's best performance was at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, where it won 63 gold medals and finished on top of the medal table.
Most of Australia's Paralympic medals come from the sports of swimming and athletics.
Athletes
- At the 1992 Paralympic Games for athletes with an intellectual disability, held in Madrid, the Australian men's swimming team was totally dominant in the pool. The standout athlete was Joseph Walker who won nine gold medals (5 individual, 4 relay) from nine events and set two world records.
- Paralympian Jessica Gallagher is the first Australian to win a medal at both a summer and winter Paralympic Games. In Rio, she won bronze with pilot Maddie Janssen in the women's 1km cycling time trial. This added to her bronze medals in 2010 and 2014 in skiing at the Winter Paralympics. She was the first Australian woman to win a medal at the Winter Paralympics.
Related Pages
- Australia at the Summer Olympics
- Countries participating at the Paralympic Games
- About Sport in Australia
- Paralympics host cities
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