1. Don Elgin (1975)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Paralympic all-around athlete born without a left leg, who has won medals in sprinting and the pentathlon at the Paralympic Games.

2. Kurt Fearnley (1981)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Australian Paralympian who won gold medals in wheelchair racing at the 2004 and 2008 Paralympic Games. He is also remembered for his dominant performance at the 2006 IPC Athletics World...

3. Tim Matthews (athlete) (1974)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Timothy Tim Shaun Matthews OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in the Victorian town of Orbost with exomphalos a condition in which the abdomen develops outside the...

4. Sharon Rackham (1974)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Sharon Margaret Rackham OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete.

5. Hamish MacDonald (athlete) (1974)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Hamish Anderson MacDonald OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne and lives in Canberra. He has cerebral palsy. His achievements and advocacy have made him one...

6. Wade McMahon (1985)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

McMahon is an Australian Paralympic athlete that competes in sprinting and javelin events. McMahon had a stroke at birth and suffers from hemiplegia. McMahon won a bronze medal at the...

7. Marsha Green (1975)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Marsha Green from New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic athlete with a vision impairment. At the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics she won a silver medal in the Women's 200 m...

8. Heath Francis (1981)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Heath Wesley Francis OAM (born 16 November 1981 in Newcastle New South Wales is an Australian athlete who has participated in the 2000 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics. His right...

9. Gloria Pascoe (1919)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Gloria Una Pascoe from Victoria is an Australian Paralympic vision impaired lawn bowler. She also suffered from epilepsy. She was born at the Salvation Army Hospital North Fitzroy on the...

10. Fabian Blattman (1958)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

bian John Blattman OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He became disabled after a motorbike accident. He started playing disabled bowls before switching to athletics. As a Paralympic athletics competitor...

11. Aaron Chatman (1987)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Aaron Chatman is an Australian right arm amputee Paralympic athlete competing in class F/T46 men's high jump long jump and 100m. He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing...

12. Todd Hodgetts (1988)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Todd Hodgetts OAM is an Australian athlete on the autism spectrum who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics.

13. Trish Flavel (1976)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Patricia Trish Flavel is an Australian Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability. She was born in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill. She won the Women's U19 1500 m...

14. Terry Giddy (1950)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Terry Giddy is an Australian Paralympic athlete with paraplegia who won six medals at six Paralympics.

15. Bruce Wallrodt (1951)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Bruce Wallrodt OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He has competed at five Paralympic Games and won nine medals.

16. Kerrod McGregor (1962)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Kerrod McGregor is an Australian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category P42 pentathlon events. He was born 23 April 1962 in Gladstone Queensland. He competed in the 1984 Summer Paralympics...

17. Tahlia Rotumah (1992)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Tahlia Rotumah is the first female Indigenous Australian Paralympian of the Minjungbal nation and is also a South Sea Islander. Rotumah was born with hemiplegia and cerebral palsy. In 2001...

18. Roy Daniell (1965)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Roy Daniell is an Australian runner with a vision impairment who has won two medals at three Paralympics.

19. Joanne Bradshaw (1961)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Joanne Meryl Bradshaw OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in the Victorian town of Yallourn and has cerebral palsy. She has one daughter. At the 1998 IPC...

20. Russell Short (1969)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Russell Luke Short OAM is an Australian legally blind athlete who has competed at seven Paralympics and won six gold two silver and four bronze medals at the Games. He...

21. Neil Fuller (1969)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Neil Robert Fuller OAM is an Australian athlete Paralympic competitor and amputee. During his youth Neil was an ambitious soccer player gaining a position playing at state level for South...

22. Nicholas Larionow (1980)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Nicholas Larionow is a paralympic athlete from Australia competing mainly in category F36 discus and shot put events. He was born in Melbourne Victoria. Nicholas competed in the 2004 Summer...

23. Paul Raison (1977)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Paul Raison is a Paralympian athlete from Australia competing in category F44 shot put discus and 4x100m relay events. He was born in Townsville Queensland. He had his leg amputated...

24. Christie Dawes (1980)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Christie Dawes née Skelton is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete.

25. Adrian Grogan (1977)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Adrian Paul Grogan OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta and has cerebral palsy. He won two bronze medals in the 200...

26. Katrina Webb (1977)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Katrina Lea Webb-Denis OAMis an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She has won Gold Silver and Bronze medals in athletics at three Paralympic Games.

27. Lachlan Jones (1977)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Lachlan Stuart Jones OAM is a former Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne and has cerebral palsy. At the 1996 Atlanta Games he won a gold medal in...

28. Louise Ellery (1977)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Louise Ellery is an Australian Paralympic athlete Commonwealth Games gold medalist and world record holder in F32 Shot put for elite athletes with a disability

29. Lisa Llorens (1978)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Lisa Christina Llorens OAMis an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Canberra She specialises in Paralympic high jumping long jumping and sprinting in competitions for athletes with autism. Llorens...

30. Deahnne McIntyre (1971)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Deahnne Mary McIntyre OAM is an Australian former Paralympic athletics competitor and one of few Australian female powerlifters. She won four medals in the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games in athletics...

31. Damien Burroughs (1978)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Damien Alexander Burroughs OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He won a gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games and participated in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics.

32. Amy Winters (1978)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Amy Louise Winters OAM is an arm amputee Australian Paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at three Paralympics including five gold medals. She was born in Kempsey New South Wales...

33. Madison de Rozario (1993)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Madison de Rozario is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She has transverse myelitis a neurological disease which inflames the spinal cord resulting in her using a wheelchair. At the age of...

34. Christopher Mullins (1986)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Christopher Chris James Mullins OAM is an Australian Paralympic cerebral palsy track and field athlete. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Men's 4x100 m...

35. Paul Benz (1986)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Paul M W Benz OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Adelaide South Australia. He won a gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the Men's...

36. Lynda Holt (1972)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Lynda Holt is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Perth. She won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's shot put F55 event.

37. Louise Sauvage (1973)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Alix Louise Sauvage OAM is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer. Sauvage is often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in Australia. She won two gold medals and a silver...

38. Kieran Ault-Connell (1981)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Kieran John Ault-Connell OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Melbourne and has cerebral palsy. He took up athletics after watching the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics. At the...

39. Rebecca Feldman (1982)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Rebecca Elizabeth Feldman OAM is a wheelchair racer from New South Wales Australia. She won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's 400 m T34 event...

40. Angie Ballard (1982)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Angela Angie Ballard is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in T53 wheelchair sprint events. She became a paraplegic at age 7 due to a car accident. She began competing...

41. Darren Thrupp (1966)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Darren Brian Thrupp OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category T37 sprint events. He has won nine medals at six Paralympics.

42. Rodney Nugent (1967)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Rodney Francis Nugent OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete.

43. Richard Colman (1984)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Richard Andrew Colman OAM is an Australian Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category T53 sprint events. He was born with spina bifida.

44. Warren Lawton (1966)

Australian Paralympic Athlete

Lawton is an Indigenous Australian Paralympic athletics and goalball competitor with a visual impairment. He was born on 23 March 1966 in Aughathella Queensland and has been visually impaired since...