Australia at the 2010 Winter Paralympics
| Australia at the 2010 Winter Paralympics |
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| IPC code | AUS | ||||||||
| NPC | Australian Paralympic Committee | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 11 in 2 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Toby Kane (Opening)Cameron Rahles-Rahbula (Closing) | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 16th |
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| Officials | 15 | ||||||||
| Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |||||||||
At the 2010 Winter paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Australia sent ever of 11 competitors to compete against 42 other nations with a total of 502 competitors making these olympics the largest ever with only 39 countries competing at Torino in 2006. Of these other nations, 2010 was the first winter paralympics for Argentina, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Romania, Russian Federation, and Serbia. The delegation also consisted of 3 sighted guides and 17 support staff. This was the largest delegation Australia had sent to a Winter Paralympics. Australia has competed at every winter Paralympics, with a history of five athletes that are known to have participated in both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games between 1960 and 2010: Peter Richards (athletics, snooker, and cross-country skiing), Kyrra Grunnsund, Anthony Bonaccurso, Michael Milton and Dominic Monypenny. Of these athletes, Dominic Monypenny was the only one to compete at the 2010 games. Nine out of the 11 athletes prior to the 2010 winter Paralympics had recorded top 10 finishes in Paralympic, world cup or world championship competition in their class, in the lead-up to the games.
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; and les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Events with "B" in the code are for athletes with visual impairment, codes LW1 to LW9 are for athletes who stand to compete and LW10 to LW12 are for athletes who compete sitting down. For the 2010 Paralympics alpine skiing events grouped athletes into sitting, standing and visually impaired categories. The same three classifications are also used to group competitors in cross-country skiing.
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