paralympics

Saturday, September 19

Libs chase Paralympic champion Cowdrey for state seat

EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s greatest ever Paralympian, Adelaide’s Matt Cowdrey, has been wooed by the South Australian Liberal Party to run for the 2018 state election, in a bid to wrest one of Labor’s most marginal seats, InDaily can reveal.

High achievement, grand ambition mark new Aussie Paralympic era's dawn

Australian Paralympic gold medallist Curtis McGrath thought his teammates were giving him the cold shoulder, but he was about to be given one of the Games’ highest honours.

Australia's Timothy Disken has added to his bronze medal in the 20-metre medley S9 final with a gold in the 100 metres. Photo: Szilard Koszticsak / EPA

Aussie Paralympic pool dominance continues

Australia’s most decorated Paralympian Matthew Cowdrey may have retired but the men’s S9 100m freestyle title remains in Aussie hands for a fourth straight Games thanks to teenage rookie Timothy Disken.

"Nanna, grandad, I did it": Golden moment for SA Paralympic debutant

Moments before South Australian Paralympic debutant Brayden Davidson won his first gold medal in Rio, he looked to the sky.

"Anything's possible" as Paralympics get off to flying start

A man in a wheelchair soared down a six-storey high ramp at high speed as fireworks lit the sky over Rio’s Maracana Stadium.