The Australian Women's Wheelchair Basketball team, the Gliders, have cruised to victory in their opening game at the 2010 IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham, England over night.
The Gliders demolished Mexico 82-38 on the back of a second half blitz.
Australian guards Shelley Chaplin and Kylie Gauci led the scoring with 19 and 17 points respectively.
Mexico opened the scoring and the adversaries went basket for basket before the Australians...
Some of Australia’s smaller sports look set to benefit from the talents of up and coming athletes after the success of the Australian Paralympic Committee’s development camp in Adelaide recently.
Paralympic table tennis, athletics and powerlifting each stand to benefit from a new generation of potential Paralympians, after 14 of the camp’s 15 participants were earmarked for future development in these sports.
Held at Immanuel College, the former school of...
Australia’s Paralympians will be adding some green to the gold around their necks when they take part in Australia’s biggest tree planting event, Planet Ark’s National Tree Day.
Supported by Toyota, which also sponsors the Australian Paralympic Committee, National Tree Day is a day for all Australians to help out the planet by planting native trees and shrubs at a Tree Day site in their local area.
This year, Australians can join their Paralympians at their...
One of London’s Olympic and Paralympic mascots, Wenlock, made a surprise visit to Australia’s wheelchair basketball team at their pre-World Championships training camp in Cardiff last week.
The Rollers were the first team to test the facilities at Cardiff University, Talybont, which will be used by the Australian Paralympic Team as a training base before the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Team Manager Leigh Gooding said the team was happy with its training camp and...
The Australian Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team, the Gliders, lost the final of the 4 Nations Tournament in Berlin, 80-55, to host country Germany overnight.
A poor shooting percentage game resulted in Germany winning convincingly over the Aussies.
The Germans dominated the game from the outset, opening an early lead of 11 points in the first quarter and the Gliders were not able to reduce this deficit.
The Aussies were able to stem the tide in the second quarter to...
Australian Danni Di Toro and Britain's Lucy Shuker lost to the top seeds in the final of the wheelchair women's doubles at Wimbledon.
Shuker, 30, and 35-year-old Di Toro had delighted the crowds by defeating France's Florence Alix-Gravellier and Holland's Jiske Griffioen, the second seeds, on Friday.
However, they found the Dutch pair of Esther Vergeer and Sharon Walraven too strong in the final, and were beaten 6-2 6-3 on Court Five.
Shuker, from Fleet in...
Australia’s Wimbledon hopes remain alive as Australian wheelchair tennis champion Daniela di Toro takes to the court in the Wheelchair Tennis Doubles Wimbledon event today.
Di Toro will pair with Great Britain’s Lucy Shuker to contest the ladies’ doubles trophy, seeded fourth behind the remaining three combinations.
In a direct rematch of the 2009 Wimbledon final, di Toro and Shuker will face Florence Alix-Gravellier of France and Jiske Griffioen of the...
Despite missing a chance to qualify for the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the recent Goalball World Championships in Sheffield, Australia’s goalballers are confident they have what it takes to compete on the sport’s largest stage.
Australia finished outside the top three qualifying places in both the men’s and women’s competition but believe they are well placed for success at the next qualifying tournament in Turkey in April next year.
Georgina...
Basketball Australia has announced the 12 athletes selected to represent the Australian Men's Wheelchair Basketball team at the 2010 IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Birmingham, England next week.
The Rollers depart for Cardiff today, where they will be in a final training camp until the IWBF World Wheelchair Basketball Championships tip off in Birmingham, England on July 7.
The team will begin their World Championships drive against France on Thursday...
Rounding out a big weekend of athletics right around the world, Australia’s top track athletes with a disability were out in force at the Swiss national championships in Arbon (SUI), posting 13 A- and 15 B-qualifying standards for next year’s IPC World Championships.
Headlining the action for Australia was Richard Colman with five A-qualifying results (T53/54 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m), Kurt Fearnley with four (T53/54 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m) and Madison de...
