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Jaylen Brown (wheelchair Basketball)
Jaylen Brown (born 22 December 2004) is a 4.0 point wheelchair basketball player from Australia. He was a member of the Rollers at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Biography Brown was born on 22 December 2004. His home town is Warrnambool, Victoria. He had a leg amputation at the age of two and has a prosthetic leg. He attended St Pius Primary School and Emmanuel College. His mother Louise played as a point guard in the Women's National Basketball League. He is a nephew of AFL player Jonathon Brown. Basketball He started playing wheelchair basketball at seven with his mother playing a significant role in coaching him. He was a member of the Victorian under 23 wheelchair basketball team which came from behind to secure a 68–60 victory over Western Australia to claim the state's maiden Kevin Coombs Cup in 2018. Brown was a member of the Spinners at the 2022 IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Thailand, where the team finished fifth. He was the Spinners' l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Summer Paralympics
The 2024 Summer Paralympics (), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international Multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee. The Games were held in Paris, France, from 28 August to 8 September 2024, and featured 549 medal events across 22 sports. These games marked the first time Paris hosted the Summer Paralympics and the second time France hosted the Paralympic Games, following the 1992 Winter Paralympics in Tignes and Albertville. France also hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics. China at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, China topped the medal table for the sixth consecutive Paralympics, winning 94 golds and 221 total medals. Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Great Britain finished second for the tenth time, with 49 golds and 124 total medals. The United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, United States finished third, with 36 golds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheelchair Basketball
Wheelchair basketball is a style of basketball played using a sports wheelchair. The International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF) is the governing body for this sport. It is recognized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the sole competent authority in wheelchair basketball worldwide. FIBA has recognized IWBF under Article 53 of its General Statutes. The IWBF has 95 National Organizations for Wheelchair Basketball (NOWBs) participating in wheelchair basketball throughout the world, with this number increasing each year. It is estimated that more than 100,000 people play wheelchair basketball from recreation to club play and as elite national team members. Wheelchair basketball is included in the Paralympic Games. The Wheelchair Basketball World Championship is played two years after every Paralympic Games. Major competition in wheelchair basketball comes from Canada, Australia, the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Japan. History 1940s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team
The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. Australia has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games except 1964. Kevin Coombs was Australia's first captain of the men's wheelchair basketball team. The Rollers qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by winning the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament and finished sixth. Competitions Summer Paralympics Performance in Gold Cup / World Championships *1973 – did not participate *1975 – did not participate *1979 – did not participate *1983 – 11th *1986 – 10th *1990 – 6th *1994 – 6th *1998 – 4th *2002 – 4th *2006 – ''Bronze'' *2010 – ''Gold'' *2014 – ''Gold'' *2018 – ''Bronze'' *2022 – 7th * Past Paralympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warrnambool, Victoria
Warrnambool (; Eastern Maar, Maar: ''Peetoop'' or ''Wheringkernitch'' or ''Warrnambool'') is a city on the south-western coast of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the Census in Australia#2021, 2021 census, Warrnambool had a population of 32,894. Situated on the Princes Highway, Warrnambool (Allansford) marks the western end of the Great Ocean Road and the southern end of the Hopkins Highway. History Origin of name The name "Warrnambool" originated from Mount Warrnambool, a scoria cone volcano 25 kilometres northeast of the town. Warrnambool (or Warrnoobul) was the title of both the volcano and the clan of Aboriginal Australian people who lived there. In the local language, the prefix Warnn- designated home or hut, while the meaning of the suffix -ambool is now unknown. William Fowler Pickering, the colonial government surveyor who in 1845 was tasked with the initial planning of the township, chose to name the town Warrnambool. The Aboriginal traditional owner, trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's National Basketball League
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is a professional women's basketball list of basketball leagues, league in Australia composed of eight teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the Women's sports, women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (Australia), National Basketball League (NBL). History Founding of the WNBL In August 1980, West Adelaide Bearcat Coach Ted Owens (basketball), Ted Powell, after an encouraging exchange of letters with St Kilda'Coach Bill Palmer called a meeting at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide. In attendance were Ted, North Adelaide Coach Kay McFarlane and Noarlunga Coach Brendan Flynn. At this meeting it was decided to approach three Victorian teams (St Kilda, CYMS and Nunawading) with the idea of forming a home and away Interstate Competition. The six teams' delegates all met and confirmed the new League at the Town and Country Motel in Sydney during the 1980 Australian Club Championships. The meeting resolved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Brown (Australian Footballer)
Jonathan Brown (born 29 October 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played 15 seasons for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League, where he served as captain between 2007 and 2013, and won three List of Australian Football League premiers, AFL premierships between 2001 and 2003. He is also a three-time club Best and Fairest winner, two-time All Australian (2007 Brisbane Lions season, 2007 and 2009 Brisbane Lions season, 2009), and a one-time Coleman Medallist. Early life Brown was born in Port Fairy, in Victoria (Australia), Victoria's south west, to mother Mary and father Brian Brown (Australian footballer), Brian (a former Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy and Essendon Football Club, Essendon player). He is the eldest of three brothers. Brown grew up on his family's property and attended school at Emmanuel College Warrnambool. He grew up a Fitzroy fan and began playing Australian rules at an early age, playing school football and cricket with the Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
The IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship is an international wheelchair basketball competition contested by the men's and women's under-23 national teams of the members of the International Wheelchair Basketball Federation ( IWBF), the sport's global governing body. The event is held every four years. The first official wheelchair basketball world championship for men under-23 was held in 1997 hosted by Toronto, Canada. Only seven nations took part at the tournament. At the next championship held 2001 in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, the number of participating nations were six. The 2005 Championship in Birmingham, United Kingdom became a full tournament attended by twelve nations from four zones. Junior women under 23 were allowed to play in the men's teams at the third edition of championships in 2005. A bonus of one point was given to the team, which had a female player on the court. However, to develop young women players, it is concluded that separate champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Institute Of Sport
The Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) is the government-funded sporting institute of the Australian state of Victoria. It provides high performance sports programs for talented athletes, enabling them to achieve national and international success. The headquarters are located in Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori .... The organisation is a member of the National Elite Sports Council. Notable people Chairs *2010–2016: Kate Palmer *2016–2017: Nicole Livingstone *2017–present: Nataly Matijevic CEOs *1990–2006: Frank Pyke *2006–2024: Anne Marie Harrison *2024–present: Nicole Livingstone References External links * Sport in Victoria (state) Australian Institute of Sport {{Australia-sport-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koroit
Koroit is a small rural town in western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, north-west of Warrnambool, Victoria, Warrnambool and west of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area located amidst rolling green pastures on the north rim of Tower Hill (volcano), Tower Hill. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, Koroit had a population of 2,055. The town borrows its name from the Gunditjmara , Koroitch Gundidj people who occupied the area prior to European colonisation. History For many thousands of years prior to British colonisation, the Koroit area was part of the lands of the indigenous Australians, indigenous Gunditjmara, Koroit gundidj people, whose descendants retain special links with the area. The first confirmed European sighting of the area was of Tower Hill, the nearby inactive volcano, in 1802, by French explorers aboard ''Le Géographe'', captained by Nicolas Baudin. The first European set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Births
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball Players For Australia
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, have been held shortly after the corresponding Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). The Paralympics began as a small gathering of British World War II veterans in 1948. The 1960 Games in Rome drew 400 athletes with disabilities from 23 countries, as proposed by doctor Antonio Maglio. Currently it is one of the largest international sporting events: the 2020 Summer Paralympics featuring 4,520 athletes from 163 National Paralympic Committees. Paralympians strive for equal treatment with non-disabled Olympic athletes, but there is a large funding gap between Olympic and Paralympic athletes. The Paralympic Games are organized in parallel with and in a similar way to the Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
