Rio 2016 Olympic Games summary
The Team
- 422 athletes, 26 sports
- In the four years before the Rio Olympics, the Australian Government invested more than
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- $340 million in high performance for Summer Olympic Sports
- $27 million in direct athlete grants through dAIS
Performance
- 29 total medals (8 gold, 11 silver, 10 bronze)
- 12 sports medalled in Rio (11 in London) (swimming, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, shooting, modern pentathlon, athletics, cycling, canoeing, diving, archery, equestrian
- Gold medal winners
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- Mack Horton (400m freestyle swimming)
- Kyle Chalmers (100m freestyle swimming)
- Women’s 4X100m freestyle swimming relay (Cate Campbell, Bronte Campbell Emma McKeon, Brittany Elmslie)
- Tom Burton (men’s laser sailing)
- Women’s rugby sevens
- Catherine Skinner (women’s trap shooting)
- Chloe Esposito (modern pentathlon)
- Kim Brennan (women’s single sculls rowing)
Young Athletes Dominant
- 136 athletes aged 20-24 finished their events in the top 8
- 20-24 age group represents half of the Australian athletes that finished top 8
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games summary
The Team
- 177 athletes, 16 sports
- In the four years before the Rio Paralympics, the Australian Government invested more than
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- $64 million in high performance for Summer Paralympic Sports
- $13.5 million in direct athlete grants through dAIS
Performance
- 81 total medals (22 gold, 30 silver, 29 bronze)
- Australia has finished Top 5 at the past 6 Paralympic Games
- 11 sports medalled in Rio (9 in London) (swimming, athletics, rowing, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, sailing, canoe sprint, archery, cycling, table tennis, triathlon)
- Gold medal winners
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- James Turner (800m T36 athletics)
- Scott Reardon (100m T42 athletics)
- Brayden Davidson (long jump T36 athletics)
- Curtis McGrath (sprint KL2 canoe)
- Carol Cooke (road race T1-2 cycling)
- Carol Cooke (time trial T1-2 cycling)
- David Nicholas (individual pursuit C3 cycling)
- Three person keelboat - Sonar (Colin Harrison, Russell Broaden, Jonathan Harris
- Two person keelboat - SKUD18 (Daniel Fitzgibbon, Leisl Tesch)
- Lakeisha Patterson (400m S8 freestyle swimming)
- Brenden Hall (400m S9 freestyle swimming)
- Maddison Elliott (100m S8 freestyle swimming)
- Timothy Disken (100m S9 freestyle swimming)
- Tiffany Thomas-Kane (100m SB6 breaststroke swimming)
- Maddison Elliott (50m S8 freestyle swimming)
- 4x100 34pts freestyle swimming relay (Ellie Cole, Lakeisha Patterson, Maddison Elliott, Ashleigh McConnell)
- Rachael Watson (50m S4 freestyle swimming)
- Ellie Cole (100m S9 backstroke swimming)
- Katie Kelly (PT5 triathlon)
- Wheelchair rugby
- Dylan Alcott (quad singles wheelchair tennis)
- Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson (quad doubles wheelchair tennis)