Paralympics Australia Media Guide Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games 24 AUGUST – 5 SEPTEMBER 2021 Media Contacts Contents PARALYMPICS AUSTRALIA - SYDNEY, NSW WELCOME STAFF 02 Message from the President Alice Wheeler - Media and Content Coordinator 03 Message from the Chef de Mission P:+61 418 961 184 05 About Paralympics Australia E: [email protected] PA MEDIA SERVICES Jacqueline Chartres - Media and Content Coordinator 08 Support for Australian media P:+61 402 338 719 E: [email protected] 12 PA Media team 16 Media etiquette PARALYMPICS AUSTRALIA – MELBOURNE, VIC Lucy Hunt - Media and Content Coordinator ABOUT THE GAMES P:+61 401 338 660 19 What is Paralympic sport? E: [email protected] 22 History of the Paralympic Games GENERAL MEDIA ENQUIRES TOKYO 2020 PARALYMPIC TEAM P: +61 2 9704 0506 34 Fast facts E: [email protected] 36 Australia at the Paralympic Games 40 Team Executive TEAM HEADQUARTERS – TOKYO, JAPAN Tim Mannion ATHLETES AND STAFF BY SPORT General Manager, Communications 44 Para-archery P: +817015957089 48 Para-athletics E: [email protected] 61 Para-badminton A complete contact list is available on page 12. 64 Boccia 67 Para-canoe WEB RESOURCES 71 Para-cycling Paralympics Australia: 78 Para-equestrian www.paralympic.org.au 82 Goalball International Paralympic Committee (IPC): 85 Para-judo www.paralympic.org 87 Para-rowing Organising Committee (TOCOG): 91 Para-shooting www.tokyo2020.org 94 Para-swimming 106 Para-table tennis SOCIAL MEDIA 111 Para-taekwondo @ausparalympics 113 Para-triathlon @ausparalympics 117 Wheelchair basketball 124 Wheelchair rugby @ausparalympics 129 Wheelchair tennis @ausparalympics APPENDICES @ausparateam 134 Competition schedule 138 Sponsor family Cover: 18 sports on the 2020 Australian Paralympic Team This page: Tokyo, Japan 2 Paralympics Australia MEDIA GUIDE 2021 3 Message from the President Message from the Chef de Mission The lead-up to these Games home, these Games present of preparation into podium as well as the all-important has been unlike any other. our best opportunity yet to success. What this means for competition schedule. While the decision to postpone introduce all of Australia to Australia’s athletes – including Further, I encourage you to was not easy, it was one that our athletes and welcome as those who arrive in Tokyo regularly check the Games our Team took in its stride. many as possible to the official as defending Paralympic portal on the Paralympics In the 12 months they would cheer squad of the Australian medallists, reigning world Australia website (paralympic. not otherwise have had, Paralympic Team, AUS Squad. champions and world record org.au/tokyo2020) – your our athletes have stayed holders - is that, while the one-stop shop for all the latest committed, focused and As those who have already competition has never been news, results, images and adaptable. covered a Paralympic Games fiercer, they are in the shape of vision. can attest, there are few their lives. As always, Paralympics athletes more deserving of your Ultimately, we want all Australia values the incredible Also primed to make their coverage than ours. I challenge Australians to know the stories support of the Australian mark are our 84 Paralympic you to tell as many stories as of our country’s best athletes media; our Paralympians debutants, including in the possible, remembering that and we will be working around rely on you to tell their stories new Paralympic sports of having a disability is only a the clock to help you tell them. and our country’s sports fans badminton (two athletes) With the Paralympic Games set part of who our athletes are, The 2020 Paralympic Games, If you do not find what you are better for it. We saw this and taekwondo (one athlete). to return to Tokyo, Japan, for not all of who they are. I look more than any other, has need in this Media Guide or on in 2016 and again in 2018 Incredibly, some of these the first time in nearly 60 years, forward to reading, watching been a long time coming. Our the PA website, please contact when the Gold Coast hosted athletes only emerged as I am confident we will all be and listening to what you come athletes have dedicated the Tim and his team. the most disability-inclusive contenders in the past 12 sharing a very special moment up with. last five years of their lives in Paralympic history. Commonwealth Games ever. to protecting their dreams months. Were it not for the It simply will not be possible of success in Tokyo and postponement, it would have for me to attend every session The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic With Seven West Media - now JOCK O’CALLAGHAN Paralympics Australia has been Paris, not Tokyo, in their of every sport every day, so I Games are expected to be the a world leader in Paralympic President spent thousands of hours sights. will be relying on you to help largest and most competitive sport broadcasting - reprising Paralympics Australia adapting its plans for the keep me updated. I can’t wait yet, contested against the its role as rightsholder and Helping you to tell their stories delivery of the Australian to watch, read and listen to iconic backdrop of one of the with what we hope to be the is a highly experienced media Paralympic Team to the your great work covering the busiest cities in the world. After unprecedented support of team led by Tim Mannion, Games. Games. many years of training, the reporters in Tokyo and at Paralympics Australia’s General Manager of Communications. 179 athletes of the Australian Paralympic athletes from KATE MCLOUGHLIN Within this Media Guide, Paralympic Team will be aiming all over the world have been Chef de Mission you will find comprehensive to push their limits to reach the counting down to these Games 2020 Australian Paralympic Team pinnacle of their sports, the for what feels like a lifetime information about the services Paralympic podium. and most feel an incredible available to you during the sense of responsibility – and Games, athlete and sport opportunity – to convert profiles, a brief history of those 12 additional months Paralympic sport in Australia, 4 Paralympics Australia MEDIA GUIDE 2021 5 Paralympics Australia Ltd Member organisations About Paralympics Australia At the heart of what we do is our athletes, who strive to compete at an elite level and PO Box 596 Archery Australia Paralympics Australia is the nation’s peak uphold the ideals of the Paralympic Movement: Sydney Markets Athletics Australia sporting organisation for athletes with physical, determination, equality, inspiration and courage. NSW 2129 Australian Para Ice Hockey Association vision and intellectual impairments. Australian Sailing Building A Of the 159 nations represented at the Rio 2016 Australian Taekwondo Our Purpose 1 Herb Elliott Avenue Paralympics, Australia placed fifth on the medal Badminton Australia Sydney Olympic Park, NSW 2127 To advance the Paralympic Movement and Para- tally with 22 gold, 30 silver and 29 bronze medals. Basketball Australia sport in Australia and be a catalyst for a more Australia placed fifth also at London 2012, Beijing P: +61 2 9704 0500 Blind Sport Australia inclusive society. 2008, Athens 2004, and first at Sydney 2000. Boccia Australia E: [email protected] • Paralympic Innovation Cycling Australia Our Values A major driver of Australia’s consistent Board Disabled Wintersport Australia Para-sports, Para-athletes and Paralympians Paralympic success in the 21st century has been President Jock O’Callaghan Disability Sport Australia are at the centre of everything we do. Together, cutting-edge innovation. Our team of sport Directors Tim Carmody Equestrian Australia we are TENACIOUS, PROUD, LIMITLESS. scientists and applied researchers works across Football Federation Australia Rebecca Frizelle a range of key areas, including skill acquisition, Paddle Australia Our Priorities Lachlan Harris coach and athlete development, performance Rowing Australia - To identify, deliver and manage Australian John Hartigan analysis, biomechanics and sports engineering. Shooting Australia Teams for Paralympic Summer and Winter Rosie King Snow Australia Games and other international sporting Our Paralympic Innovation team has specialist Grant Mizens Sport Inclusion Australia competitions; knowledge of Para-sport. The team works closely Helen Nott Swimming Australia - To initiate, implement and support programs with athletes and their coaches to co-design Annabelle Williams Table Tennis Australia to increase awareness of, access to and world-leading learning environments that: Tennis Australia participation in Paralympic sports; - Provide context-specific and bespoke solutions Triathlon Australia - To promote inclusion and equality for people to coach and athlete challenges; with a disability within sport and more broadly. - Empower athletes to take ownership of their skill development; We work with our national sporting organisation partners to help identify potential Paralympians - Simulate competition contexts and prepare and assist athletes to prepare for competition athletes for the expected and unexpected; by providing funding for and access to coaching, - Support behaviour change; equipment, medical support and travel in the - Allow for sharing and education for sustainable lead up to the Summer and Winter Paralympic success. Games. Our Paralympic Innovation team has targeted Our partnerships with governments, business, and strong partnerships with the National national sporting organisations and disability Institute