Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics information
Sporting event delegation
Australia at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
IPC code
AUS
NPC
Australian Paralympic Committee
Website
www.paralympic.org.au
in Sydney
Competitors
285 in 18 sports
Flag bearer
Brendan Burkett (Opening) Neil Fuller (Closing)
Officials
148
Medals Ranked 1st
Gold
63
Silver
39
Bronze
47
Total
149
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
1960
1964
1968
1972
1976
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Australia was the host nation for the 2000 Summer Paralympics which was held in Sydney. Australia competed in the games between 18 and 29 October.[1] The team consisted of 285 athletes in 18 sports with 148 officials. It was the country's largest ever Paralympic delegation to a Games. Australia has participated at every Summer Paralympic Games since its inception. Australia finished at the top of the medal tally with 63 gold, 39 silver and 47 bronze medals to total 149 medals for the games. This was the first time and the only time to date that Australia has finished on top of either an Olympic or Paralympic medal tally.[2]
The most successful sports were athletics, cycling, equestrian, swimming and wheelchair tennis. As one of the sporting events, sailing involved the implementation of forecasting systems and services in Sydney Harbour, in addition to the recruitment of professionals to design the project’s plans and processes.[3] This occurred in order to fulfil the requirements of both event organisers, competitors and visitors.[3]
Notable Australian performances were:
Siobhan Paton won six gold medals in S14 swimming events and set six world records
Timothy Sullivan won five gold medals and set five world records in athletics
Neil Fuller, a leg amputee sprinter, won four gold medals and one bronze medal and was flag bearer at the closing ceremony
Lisa Llorens won three gold medals and one silver medal in athletics
Greg Smith in wheelchair athletics events won three gold medals
Lisa McIntosh won three gold medals in athletics
Athletes who won two individual gold medals were: Louise Sauvage, Russell Short, Amy Winters, Julie Higgins, Kingsley Bugarin, and Gemma Dashwood.[4]
Ultimately, this event has historically influenced The Australian Paralympic Movement and has present impacts on the social development of the Australian nation and its disabled community.[5] Noting the access and disability challenges experienced prior to and during the Games, the outcomes of central organisational bodies responsible for devising and executing plans associated with this have been reviewed.[6] Following the announcement of Sydney being the host city for the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games on 23 September 1993, the NSW Government established central organisations and bodies to distribute the workload, responsibilities and eventually, allocated funding based on this.[7]
^"Sydney 2000 – Sydney 2000". International Paralympic Committee. August 2001. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
^"Sydney Paralympic Games Closed at High Tune", People's Daily, Retrieved 30 October 2000
^ abSpark, Elly; Connor, Gregory J. (1 April 2004). "Wind Forecasting for the Sailing Events at the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games". Weather and Forecasting. 19 (2): 181–199. doi:10.1175/1520-0434(2004)019<0181:WFFTSE>2.0.CO;2. ISSN 1520-0434.
^"Australian 2000 Paralympic Team". Pandora Website. Archived from the original on 19 October 2000. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
^Cite error: The named reference :8 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Darcy, Simon (1 October 2003). "The politics of disability and access: the Sydney 2000 Games experience". Disability & Society. 18 (6): 737–757. doi:10.1080/0968759032000119497. hdl:10453/1044. ISSN 0968-7599. S2CID 145643634.
^Authority., New South Wales. Olympic Co-ordination (2002). The Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games : a report on the financial contribution by the New South Wales Government to the Sydney 2000 Games. Olympic Co-ordination Authority. OCLC 223580730.
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