Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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Australia is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The first places the team qualified were for six athletes in sailing events.

Administration

In May 2015, the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) announced Kate McLoughlin as the Chef de Mission. She replaced Jason Hellwig, the former APC CEO, who stepped down from the role.[1] The APC appointed Kurt Fearnley and Daniela Di Toro as team captains. 2004 Athens Games was the last time the team had captains. [2]

Fundraising

The APC stated that it needed to raise $7 million to fund its Rio 2016 campaign. The majority of APC's funding to send Australian teams to major events originates from fundraising. In January 2016, it launched the Australian Paralympic Foundation to manage its fundraising. Cadbury made the first major donation of $1 million.[3] In the four year period leading up to Rio, the Australian Sports Commission (ASC) provided $62 million in funding.[4] In the 2015-16 financial year, the ASC through its athlete assistance scheme dAIS provided approximately $3,990,520. [4] To assist with funding raising, its broadcast partner Seven Network organized a Parathon on 5 March 2016. [4]

Disability classifications

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Main article: Disability sport classification

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.[5][6] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.[7]

Team

List of team members as of 29 April 2016.

Sport Men Women Total
Athletics
Cycling 9 7 16
Equestrian
Paracanoe
Paratriathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting 4 2 6
Swimming 19 12 31
Table tennis 2 3 5
Wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair rugby
Wheelchair tennis
Total 34 24 58

Events

Archery

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Main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Jonathon Milne earned Australia a spot at the Rio Games following his performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships. He qualified the country after making the round of 16 in the Compound men’s open.[8]

Athletics

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Australia earned 12 gold and silver medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and subsequently earned 9 qualification slots for the Rio Paralympics. (Two medals were earned in non-Paralympic events, and Isis Holt won two medals but only one slot is awarded per athlete).

Boccia

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Main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

The cycling team was announced on 30 May 2016. The team consisted of 13 athletes and three sighted pilots:[9]

Men - Kieran Modra, Michael Gallagher, David Nicholas, Stuart Tripp, Kyle Bridgwood, Alistair Donohoe, Matthew Formston
Women - Jessica Gallagher, Carol Cooke, Simone Kennedy, Alexandra Lisney, Sue Powell, Amanda Reid
Pilots - David Edwards (for Kieran Modra), Nick Yallouris (for Matthew Formston) and Madison Janssen (for Jessica Gallagher)

For Modra, this would be his eighth Paralympic Games.[9]

Equestrian

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Main article: Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Goalball

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Main article: Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Australian women's team failed to qualify after finishing third at the IBSA Goalball Asia Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China.[10] Australian men's team failed to qualify after finishing fifth at the IBSA Goalball Asia Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China. [11]

Paracanoe

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Main article: Paracanoe at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

At the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, three boats qualified: Women's KL2 (Susan Seipel), Women's LK3 (Amanda Reynolds) and Men's KL2 (Curtis McGrath). Additional qualification places still available.

Paratriathlon

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Main article: Paratriathlon at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Australia qualified for two events at 2015 ITU World Championships  : Men's PT1 (Bill Chaffey) and Women's PT5 (Katie Kelly). Additional qualifications available in 2016.[12]

Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

At the 2015 World Rowing Championships, Australia qualified two boats: ASM1X (Erik Horrie) and TA2X (Kathryn Ross/Gavin Bellis).[13] Further qualifications available.

Sailing

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Main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Australia qualified a boat for all three sailing classes at the Games through their results at the 2014 Disabled Sailing World Championships held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Places were earned in the solo 2.4mR event (Matthew Bugg), the two-person SKUD 18-class (Leisl Tesch/Daniel Fitzgibbon) and a crew also qualified for the three-person Sonar class (Colin Harrison, Jonathon Harris and Russell Boaden.).[14]

Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Shooting Australia nominated six athletes in May 2016.[15]
Men - Luke Cain, Bradley Mark, Chris Pitt, Anton Zappelli
Women - Libby Kosmala, Natalie Smith
Officials - Head Coach - Miro Sipek

Libby Kosmala was selected for her twelfth Games. The team was missing Paralympian Ashley Adams who was killed in 2015 accident. [15]

Swimming

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Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Swimming Australia nominated 31 athletes on 13 April 2016.[16] Australia was allocated 36 slots and a further 5 athletes will be selected. [16]

Men - Joshua Alford, Michael Anderson, Jesse Aungles, Liam Bekric, Blake Cochrane, Rowan Crothers, Timothy Disken, Daniel Fox, Brenden Hall, Guy Harrison-Murray, Timothy Hodge, Braedan Jason, Ahmed Kelly, Matthew Levy, Jeremy McClure, Rick Pendleton, Logan Powell, Sean Russo, Jacob Templeton
Women - Emily Beecroft, Ellie Cole, Maddison Elliott, Tanya Huebner, Jenna Jones, Paige Leonhardt, Ashleigh McConnell, Monique Murphy, Lakeisha Patterson, Madeleine Scott, Tiffany Thomas Kane, Prue Watt
Officials - Team Leader - Adam Pine ; Head Coach - Brendan Keogh ; Coaches - Angelo Basalo, Jan Cameron, Harley Connolly, Nathan Doyle

Three athletes were selected for their fourth Games - Matthew Levy, Jeremy McClure and Rick Pendleton [16]

Table tennis

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Main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Five athletes were selected to represent Australia. Daniela Di Toro previously represented Australia in wheelchair tennis and Melissa Tapper was set to become the first Australian to compete at both the Summer Paralympics and Summer Olympics in the same year.[17]

Men - Barak Mizrachi, Samuel Von Einem
Women - Daniela Di Toro, Melissa Tapper, Andrea McDonnell

Wheelchair basketball

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Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Men's tournament

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Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men

The Rollers qualified by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament.[18]

Team roster
  • Men's team event – 1 team of 12 players
Group play
Team
Pld W L PF PA PD Pts Tiebreaker
Australia 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0
Canada 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0
Turkey 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0
Netherlands 0 0 0 0 0 +0 0
Japan 0 0 0 0 0 −0 0
Spain 0 0 0 0 0 −0 0

Women's tournament

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Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Women

The Gliders did not qualify after finishing second to China at the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament.[18]

Wheelchair rugby

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Australia won the 2014 World Wheelchair Rugby Championships, thereby automatically qualifying to defend the Paralympic title they won in London.[19][20]

Wheelchair tennis

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See also

References

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