Australia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 115 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5091-6772-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 151 athletes (91 men and 60 women). Australian competitors won 101 medals (26 gold, 39 silver and 36 bronze) to finish fifth in the gold medal table and second on the total medal table. The Australian team was smaller than the Sydney Games due to a strict selection policy related to the athletes' potential to win a medal and the International Paralympic Committee's decision to remove events for athletes with an intellectual disability from the Games due to issues of cheating at the Sydney Games. The IPC decision resulted in leading Australian athletes such as Siobhan Paton and Lisa Llorens not being able to defend their Paralympic titles. Australia competed in 12 sports and won medals in 8 sports. The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в...