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New Australian Sporting Alliance working together towards a more inclusive future
The Australian Sporting Alliance for People with a Disability (ASAPD) acknowledges International Day of People with a Disability (IDPwD) and supports its aim to promote greater understanding of disability issues and mobilise support for the dignity, rights and well-being of those with a disability, impairment or limitation. The Alliance brings together Australia’s nine National Sporting… Read more
Sydney 2000 Paralympics – The Gold Medal Relay
The Sydney Olympics may have had the air guitar playing Australian 4 x 100m freestyle relay team, but the Sydney 2000 Paralympics had the awesome amigo’s. Brett Reid, Paul Cross, Patrick Donachie and Stewart Pike represented Australia at the 2000 Paralympics in swimming. Paul and Brett were the experienced members… Read more
Sydney 2000 Paralympics – Athletics
Athletics was the biggest sport at Sydney 2000 Paralympics and the largest component of the Australian team with 70 athletes, of which 11 athletes had an intellectual disability. Australia finished on top of the Athletics medal tally with 35 Gold, 15 Silver and 16 Bronze medals. Our star of the… Read more
OUR QUEEN OF THE TRACK – Sydney 2000 Paralympics – Lisa Llorens
If Siobhan Paton was the Queen of the Pool, then fellow ACT athlete Lisa Llorens was our Queen of the Track. Lisa developed an interest in high jump while at primary school, so it was off to little athletics she went and so began a journey that has seen her… Read more
OUR QUEEN OF THE POOL – Sydney 2000 Paralympics – Siobhan Paton
A young girl growing up in NSW with a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome) Siobhan Paton was encouraged to take up swimming to stop her joints from going soft and a life in a wheel chair. So it was off to learn to swim classes. Like many swimmers Siobhan progressed… Read more
Looking back at the 2019 Virtus (Inas) Global Games – Table Tennis
History was made in Brisbane with the first single class Factor 20 event sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF. Twenty (20) countries entered their best players in the competition and justified the support of the ITTF in sanctioning the Table Tennis competition at the Games. With the world’s best… Read more
INAS Global Games 2019 中文 (Chinese)
The 2019 INAS Global Games is a week long championship featuring nine sports and attracting over 1000 of the world’s elite athletes, who just happen to have an intellectual disability… Although if you didn’t know, you wouldn’t!
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About Us
We work with National Sporting Organisations to assist them build the capacity to be inclusive of athletes with a disability.
Sport Inclusion Australia is a National Sporting Organisation for athletes with an integration difficulties, primarily those with an intellectual disability.
Sport Inclusion Australia does not conduct events, but rather advocates for the inclusion and development of programs, which focus on the ability of the individual.
