Lauren Parker would be the first Australian since 1992 to compete in two sports activities on the similar Paralympics.
She heads into Paris 2024 as a world champion in each Para-triathlon and Para-cycling.
Emily Petricola gained gold on Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020. Since then, she has gained six Para-cycling world titles.
And former army fight engineer Curtis McGrath will probably be hoping to win his fourth and fifth gold medals in Para-canoe.
Whereas most of Australia’s medals often come from swimming and athletics, there are many different main prospects in different sports activities.
Lauren Parker
Lauren Parker after profitable gold on the World Para-Biking Championships final yr. (Twitter: UCI Para-Biking)
The AIS Feminine Para Athlete of the Yr in 2023, the outstanding Lauren Parker heads to Paris as each a Para-triathlon and Para-cycling world champion.
Starting her Para-sport journey as a triathlete in 2018, she gained World Championship gold in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. She gained silver throughout her Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2021 and will probably be hoping to go one higher this day out.
And final yr, at solely her second ever Para-cycling occasion, Parker was topped World Champion within the girls’s H3 particular person time trial.
She would be the first Australian since Jodi Willis-Roberts (athletics and goalball) and Kieran Modra (athletics and swimming) at Barcelona 1992 to compete in two sports activities on the similar Paralympics.
Emily Petricola
Emily Petricola together with her gold medal within the C4 Girls’s Particular person Pursuit on the world biking titles in Glasgow final yr. (Provided: SWPix.com/Alex Whitehead )
Emily Petricola solely entered her first main Para-cycling event in 2018. By 2021, she was a Paralympic gold medallist, and is now a six-time World Champion.
The 44-year-old enters her second Video games with a shot at an unprecedented golden hat-trick of the three,000-metre particular person pursuit, particular person time trial and street race occasions.
After Tokyo, she was recognized with secondary a number of sclerosis, following her preliminary prognosis in 2007.
Curtis McGrath
Curtis McGrath profitable his twelfth World Championship title earlier this yr.
(AAP: Bence Vekassy/Paddle Australia)
In 2016, Curtis McGrath gained Australia’s first ever gold medal in Para-canoe, with a come-from-behind victory over six-time world champion Markus Swoboda within the KL2.
Two extra gold medals adopted at Tokyo 2020, defending his KL2 title and profitable the VL3.
Co-captain of the group for Paris 2024, the previous army fight engineer’s place within the pantheon of Australian Paralympic legends is already properly established.
Qian Yang
Qian Yang competing on the Tokyo Paralympics. (Getty Photographs: Lintao Zhang)
A Paralympic gold medallist earlier than her 18th birthday, Qian Yang is likely one of the brightest lights in an Australian Para-table tennis group full of stars.
Though she has been a Paralympic mainstay since 2012, Paris 2024 will solely be her second Video games representing Australia.
That is as a result of in her first two Paralympic appearances she wore the colors of China, the nation of her start.
Immigrating to Australia after Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 was her first Video games within the inexperienced and gold.
Qian gained singles gold and group silver in Tokyo, serving to propel her adopted homeland to 5 desk tennis medals, Australia’s finest ever Paralympic displaying.
Dan Michel
Boccia B3 pairs world primary ranked group Dan Michel and Jamieson Leeson. (AAP: Bianca De Marchi)
Boccia is one among two Paralympic sports activities, alongside goalball, that does not have an Olympic counterpart.
One of many world’s quickest rising Para sports activities, it may be considered a mix of bocce and garden bowls.
Dan Michel heads into Paris 2024 as world primary within the BC3 class and will probably be aiming to win Australia’s first boccia gold medal.
However it’s within the blended doubles the place Australia’s best hope lies.
Michel and long-time teammate Jamieson Leeson have swept all competitors apart in recent times, and they are going to be seeking to avenge their early exit at Tokyo 2020.
Jonathon Milne
Jonathon Milne will probably be hoping to medal in Paris after lacking out in Tokyo. (Provided: Paralympics Australia)
At Rio 2016, Jonathon Milne gained Australia’s first Para-archery medal in 32 years, with a bronze within the males’s particular person compound open.
He was unable to duplicate the feat at Tokyo, the place he was eradicated earlier than the quarterfinals, however heads into Paris 2024 on the again of a podium end on the 2023 Para-archery World Championships.
Milne is a part of Australia’s largest Paralympic archery group since 1984.
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