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Australia At The 1984 Summer Paralympics
Australia competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics that were held in two locations - Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom (wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America (wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and "Les Autres" (the others) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes). Four months before the beginning of the 1984 summer Paralympics, the University of Illinois terminating their contract to hold the Games.Brittain,''From Stoke Mandeville to Stratford'' Australia won 154 medals - 49 gold, 54 silver and 51 bronze medals. Australia competed in 9 sports and won medals in 6 sports. Australia finished 8th on the gold medal table and 7th on the total medal table. Notable Australian performances were: *In Stoke Mandeville (Spinal and Cord Injury athletes): **Australia's female shooters: Libby Kosmala won four gold medal, cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Paralympic Committee
Paralympics Australia (PA) previously called the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) (1998–2019) is the National Paralympic Committee in Australia for the Paralympic Games movement. It oversees the preparation and management of Australian teams that participate at the Summer Paralympics and the Winter Paralympics. APC played a major role in Australia's successful bid to host the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. Since the 1996 Summer Paralympics, Australia has finished in the top five nations on the medal tally. It is also a successful nation at the Winter Paralympics. Membership The PA is a company limited by guarantee and its shareholders are national sports federations and national sporting organisations for the disabled. These organisations are: Athletics Australia, Australian Shooting International Limited, AUSRAPID, Basketball Australia, Blind Sports Australia, Boccia Australia, Cerebral Palsy – Australian Sport and Recreation Federation, Cycling Australia, Disabled Wint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nugent
Michael Nugent (born 1 June 1961) is an Irish writer and activist. He has written, co-written or contributed to seven books and the comedy musical play ''I, Keano''. He has campaigned on many political issues, often with his late wife Anne Holliday, and he is chairperson of the advocacy group Atheist Ireland. Early life Nugent was completing a project on the Gospels in primary school when he started to question the "comic book" nature of the Bible. He attended St. Aidan's C.B.S. secondary school in Whitehall in Dublin. He graduated in visual communications in 1983 at the College of Marketing and Design, now part of the Dublin Institute of Technology. In 1983, he was elected president of the college students' union and students' representative on the Dublin City Council Vocational Education Committee. In 1984, he was defeated when he ran for the post of education officer in the Union of Students in Ireland, in opposition to Joe Duffy, then USI president, who is now a broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary-Anne Wallace
Mary-Anne Wallace is an Australian Paralympic swimmer with a vision impairment. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle B3 event, a silver medal in the Women's 100 m Butterfly B3 event, and two bronze medals in the Women's 100 m Freestyle B3 and Women's 200 m Individual Medley B3 events. References Female Paralympic swimmers for Australia Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Paralympic swimmers with a vision impairment Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Paralympic medalists in swimming Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers Australian female medley swimmers Australian blind people 20th-century Australian women Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Australia- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prue-Anne Reynalds
Prue-Anne Reynalds is an Australian Paralympic athlete and cyclist. She competed in the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics in athletics events as a classified "B1" athlete where she won a bronze in the Women's 3000 m B1 event. She also competed in the mixed tandem open cycling road event at the 1992 Summer Paralympics )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , athletes = 3,020 (BCN)1,600 (MAD) , opened_by = Queen Sofía , opening = 3 September (BCN)15 September (MAD) , closing = 14 September (BCN)22 September (MAD) , even ... but did not win a medal. References Paralympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Visually impaired middle-distance runners Australian blind people Living people Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Lawton
Warren Lawton (born 23 March 1966) is an Indigenous Australian Paralympic athletics and goalball competitor with a visual impairment. He was born on 23 March 1966 in Augathella, Queensland and has been visually impaired since birth. At the 1984 New York Games, he competed in three athletics events and won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump B3. He won a bronze medal in the Men's High Jump at the 1986 World Championships for the Disabled, Gothenburg, Sweden. He competed in two athletics events at the 1988 Seoul Games. He was a member of the Australian Goalball Team at the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ... and 2000 Sydney Games. He was one of the fastest goalball throwers in the world. His throw has been clocked on the poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Murphy (Paralympian)
Margaret Booth (née Murphy) is an Australian vision-impaired Paralympic Games athletics and goalball competitor. Personal life Murphy was diagnosed with the genetic eye condition, retinitis pigmentosa, when she was just four-years-old; the same eye condition as her mother. During her high school years her sight began to deteriorate rapidly and she was enrolled into the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. After learning how to use a white cane through a program tailored by a Guide Dogs orientation and mobility specialist, she received her first guide dog, Matilda, in 1989. After finishing school, she undertook a secretarial course at TAFE before working for the Commonwealth Bank for nine years. During her career she taught people how to use computers. In 2016 Murphy was appointed as a Guide Dogs NSW/ACT public relations speaker. Sporting career At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics as a classified B2 athlete in the women's 100 m, 400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (athlete)
Mark Hedley Davies (30 June 1960 – 9 January 2011) was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, and was the first man to represent the Northern Territory in sport for the blind. He had a degenerative eye condition that caused tunnel vision; he found it more difficult to compete in able-bodied sports as he got older, and by 2000, he had lost all of his sight. He began his athletic career before the establishment of the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, so he had to organise all his training and transport independently. In 1982 he joined the newly formed Northern Territory Blind Sports Association, and went on to win many medals and break Australian records at national blind sporting championships. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, he won gold medals in the Men's Pentathlon B2, where he broke a world record, and the Men's 100 m B2. He also competed in athletics without winning any med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Holcombe
Brett Holcombe is an Australian Paralympic amputee athlete. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, he won three gold medals in the Men's Long Jump A6, Men's Triple Jump A6, and Men's 4×100 m relay A4–9 events and a silver medal in the Men's High Jump A6 event. He also participated in the Australian men's standing volleyball team at the 2000 Sydney Games. References Paralympic athletes for Australia Paralympic volleyball players for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Australian amputees Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian male sprinters Australian male high jumpers Australian male long jumpers Australian male triple jumpers Triple jumpers with limb difference Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Eames
Rosemary Clare Elliott (née Eames) (1965–2002) was an Australian swimmer with one arm. She won six medals at the 1984 Summer Paralympics and broke many world records in swimming. Personal Eames was raised in the Sydney suburb of Kingsgrove. At the age of five, she fell off a slide and damaged a bone in her left wrist while holidaying in Batemans Bay. Her left arm was plastered, but it developed gas gangrene and had to be amputated a few weeks later. After her recovery, she resumed gymnastics due to the encouragement of her parents, and took up jazz ballet, impressing the local community so much that she received a Canterbury Council Centenary Medal for Achievement. When she began swimming soon after the accident, she was only taught sidestroke because her swimming teachers thought that it was the only stroke that could be performed by a person with one arm. However, she met a swimming teacher with one arm in North Ryde who showed her how to swim the other strokes by example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Hammond
Gregory John Hammond , OAM (born 10 May 1967) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer who also competed at an international level in sailing and volleyball. Personal Hammond was born on 10 May 1967 in Sydney, with a shortened right forearm. While growing up around Manly, one of his favourite sports was sailing. As of 2000, he had two children, and was working as a mechanical engineer. Career At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, Hammond won three gold medals in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke A8, Men's 100 m Freestyle A8, and Men's 4x100 m Medley Relay A1–A9 events, and three silver medals in the Men's 100 m Butterfly A8, Men's 200 m Individual Medley A8, and Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay A1–A9 events. At the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, he won two gold medals in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke A8 and Men's 100 m Freestyle A8 events, and a silver medal in the Men's 4x50 m Freestyle Relay A1–A8 event. During his swimming c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Gudgeon
Gary Gudgeon is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. At the 1980 Arnhem Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 400 m Freestyle C–D event, two silver medals in the Men's 100 m Backstroke C–D and Men's 4x50 m Individual Medley C events, and a bronze medal in the Men's 100 m Freestyle C–D event. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games, he won four gold medals in the Men's 100 m Breaststroke A4, Men's 100 m Butterfly A4, Men's 200 m Individual Medley A4 and Men's 400 m Freestyle A4 events, and a silver medal in the Men's 100 m Backstroke A4 event. References Male Paralympic swimmers for Australia Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic silver medalists for Australia Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Living people Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Brunner
Helena Martha Brunner, OAM, (born 1957 or 1958) is an Australian swimmer, who won seven medals at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games. Personal As a teenager, Brunner represented her state of New South Wales in national able-bodied swimming competitions, but she quit swimming at the age of seventeen; she was then briefly interested in water polo. After finishing school, she attended Goulburn College of Advanced Education. In 1978 at the age of 20, she had a severe motorcycle accident while delivering mail for Australia Post; as a result, her right leg was amputated below the knee two years later. During her rehabilitation, she met someone who suggested that she take up swimming again. Eighteen months after the 1984 Paralympics, she had a daughter. She also worked as a teacher. Swimming career At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, Brunner won five gold medals in the Women's 100 m Backstroke A4, Women's 100 m Freestyle A4, Women's 400 m Free ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
