Paralympic legends prepare for final showdown
THE Rio Paralympic wheelchair marathon brings the curtain down on the careers of two legends in Aussie champion Kurt Fearnley and British great David Weir.
THE Rio Paralympic wheelchair marathon brings the curtain down on the careers of two legends in Aussie champion Kurt Fearnley and British great David Weir.
AUSSIE cyclist Stuart Tripp says the inspiration behind his rise from “lost” car crash victim to Paralympic medallist is a 500-year-old Japanese swordsman.
AUSTRALIA’S gold rush finally arrived on day eight of the Rio Paralympic Games, as the Aussies stormed into a top-five medal spot with four more golds.
SCOTT Reardon’s Paralympic gold medal in the T42 100m sprint at Rio’s Olympic Stadium maintains tiny Temora’s standing as a home of sporting champions.
ELATED athletes holding medals up to their ears in delight will be one of the enduring images of the Paralympic Games in Rio.
WOUNDED soldier Curtis McGrath has gone from the Afghanistan battlefield to Paralympic Games glory, winning gold in his KL2 para-canoe event.
THESE athletes have overcome incredible hurdles in their sporting careers to hit the top of their game at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.
SIXTEEN years ago, Dylan Alcott was bullied in school for being overweight and in a wheelchair. Now he’s a dual Paralympian tennis gold medallist. VIDEO.
LAST year, Matt Stutzman smashed a world record, hitting a target with a single arrow from two-and-a-half footy fields away.
COACH Ben Ettridge concedes the Rollers “didn’t pay the jersey enough respect” as they leave the Paralympics without a medal for the first time in 16 years.
THIS Iranian athlete can touch the top of Shaquille O’Neal’s head — sitting down. Opposition players have got no answers.
TEEN sprint sensation Isis Holt has added a Paralympic Games silver to her world championship golden double, finishing second in her T35 100m final.
NEARLY 15 years to the day he lost his legs in an auto racing crash in Germany, Italian athlete Alex Zanardi captured a gold medal at the Rio Paralympics.
UNITED States archer Matt Stutzman last year hit a target with a single arrow from 283m. It’s a Guinness world record. And he did it without arms.
IN Australia, a country built on sport and its Anzac heritage, what more compelling story could there be than a wounded soldier fighting for gold on the global stage?
AUSSIES Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson have clawed their way back from big second and third set deficits to win quad doubles gold at the Rio Paralympics.
FROM a table tennis player with no arms to a cyclist missing half of his left leg, the 2016 Paralympic Games have provided some remarkable images.
AUSTRALIA’S fairytale Paralympic Games goalball journey has ended in elimination, but coach Peter Corr insists his players will emerge a stronger group.
THE fastest Australian Paralympian of all time, Evan O’Hanlon, has come second in the T38 100m final in Rio, missing out on a hat-trick of gold medals in the event.
PARALYMPIAN swimmer Achmat Hassiem bears no grudge against the shark that severed his right foot in a deep-sea struggle off the coast of Cape Town eight years ago.
POLISH fencer Adrian Castro is thanking his lucky stars he won the approval of his future father-in-law before the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
SOUTH Australia’s Brayden Davidson brought tears to everyone eyes when he secured Australia’s first athletics gold medal of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games with a record-busting leap of 5.62m.
SOMETHING extraordinary has happened at the Paralympics, with not one but four runners outdoing the gold medallist in the same race at the Rio Olympics.
ADELAIDE long jumper Brayden Davidson has triumphed with a record-breaking leap to take home gold at the Rio Paralympics.
TIMOTHY Disken stretched Australia’s reign in the S9 100m to a fourth straight Paralympics, winning the second of the nation’s two gold medals on day five in Rio.
PARALYMPIAN Dylan Alcott loves to crowdsurf at music festivals – in his wheelchair.
VISUALLY impaired Behzad Zadaliasghari showed off some impeccable ball control, and a tidy finish, with what has to be the goal of the Paralympic Games in Rio.
HE learnt the game against the backdrop of Abu Dhabi’s golden sand, but table tennis player Sam von Einem says silver is his new favourite colour.
SOMETHING extraordinary has happened at the Paralympics, with not one but four runners outdoing the gold medallist in the same race at the Rio Olympics.
A 50-year-old mother-of-three from Kazakhstan has upstaged younger rivals to claim a powerlifting silver medal in her Paralympic Games debut.
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