The Australian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team to contest the 2010 IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championships in Birmingham, England from July 7-17, has been announced today by Basketball Australia.
The Australian Gliders will be captained by Tina McKenzie, whose experience with the Gliders dates back to her inclusion as a reserve for the team at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney.
McKenzie, along with senior players Liesl Tesch and Kylie Gauci, will...
The New South Wales 7-A-Side football team was crowned national champions after defeating Queensland 2-0 at the 2010 National Paralympic 7-A-Side Football Championships held in Melbourne at the weekend.
New South Wales kicked off an early lead with Jamie Laybutt scoring in the 15th minute.
Laybutt’s handiwork remained the high point of the game until the 50th minute when 15-year-old Jack Williams opened the score to a 2-0 lead and sealed New South Wales’ sixth...
Australia’s wheelchair rugby team has suffered a 4-1 series defeat to the United States in Birmingham, Alabama, in what Australian coach Brad Dubberley has described as a massive learning curve for the team.
The North American Cup, which saw the world’s top two ranked teams do battle for the first time since the Beijing Paralympics, gave the Steelers some much needed playing experience against the reigning Paralympic and World Champions, ahead of the 2010 World...
Reigning Para-cycling time trial World Champion Sue Powell has collected her second win in the Spanish round of the Para-cycling World Cup in Segovia.
Powell, 43, clocked a time of 31:58.66 in the 21 kilometre C4 women's road time trial to claim the gold medal ahead of Canadian Marie-Claude Molnar (32:49.69) with South Africa's Roxanne Burns in third place in a time of 38:36.80.
The Canberra cyclist also won gold in the road race and has retained her world number one ranking....
Despite losing the series, the Gliders took home the honours in the final game, topping Germany 57-48.
Germany won the five-game friendly series 3-2.
A strong second half allowed the Gliders to power over the top of the Germans and take the win.
Cobi Crispin led the Gliders with 17 points and eight rebounds while Gesche Schuenemann was the best of the Germans with 21 points and 12 rebounds.
Germany bolted at the start with a 7-0 scoring run before the...
Queensland's Bryce Lindores and pilot Sean Finning from Victoria sprinted home to win the men's tandem road race at the Spanish round of the Para-cycling World Cup in Segovia.
The pair completed the 88 kilometre race in a time of 1:56:22 finishing well clear of Italians Maurizio Romeo and pilot Bruno Sanetti. French pair Olivier Donval and pilot John Saccamandi were ten seconds back in third place.
Blind cyclist Lindores, 23, claimed a bronze medal in the pursuit on the...
Australia has snapped the United States’ two-year winning streak today in Lakeshore, Alabama, and set up a mouth-watering conclusion to the Wheelchair Rugby five-match series between the world’s top two ranked nations.
In game two of the series played today, the Australians defeated the world number one team 50-49, levelling the series at one-all and shattering an American winning streak dating back to June, 2008.
After resting key player Ryley Batt in...
The Australian Gliders went down 54-39 to Germany in Geelong overnight, giving the visitors an unassailable 3-1 lead in the friendly series.
The Gliders will feel that the margin of victory did not accurately reflect their performance in the match, and they will rue their missed opportunities in what was for the most part, an even contest.
They had their fair share of possession, and indeed more attempts than their opposition (56 to 50). However, it was their inability...
The Australian Wheelchair Rugby Team has suffered a heavy loss in game one of the five-game series against the United States today in Lakeshore, Alabama.
In the battle of the world’s top two ranked teams, the Australians were outgunned 55-33 but contested the match without star player Ryley Batt.
Widely regarded as the world’s most dominant player, Batt was rested by Australian coach Brad Dubberley in a tactical move aimed at providing his team with big game...
The Gliders came close but fell to Germany in a 58-55 hard-fought game on Wednesday afternoon.
Germany came out strong, looking for a win to recover the lead in the series over the Australians. They took the game into their hands and the Australians seemed to have lost their fight; Germany secured the 2-1 series lead.
Within the first two periods Germany made it clear that they were going to fight to win the series. They took a huge lead over the Gliders by halftime with...
