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  • Vanessa Low competing in the T63 long jump.
    05 Sept 2025

    Barriers broken for Para-athletes

    More than 100 Para-athletes will continue chasing their dreams at upcoming summer and winter Paralympics with the backing of a critical funding boost from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and Paralympics Australia.

  • Olympian Cedric Dubler Win Well Series
    28 Aug 2025

    Olympian Cedric Dubler explores what it means to Win Well

    Olympic Cedric Dubler has used his European summer to catch up with some fellow Australian athletes to learn how they Win Well. 

  • Australian Blind Football coach Bess Hepworth is one of 19 taking part in the inaugural AIS Para Coach Experiential Learning Program.
    26 Aug 2025

    New series shining a light on our Para-sport coaches

    World-class athletes need world-class mentors and with Brisbane 2032 fast approaching, Australian sport needs our Para-sport coaches now more than ever before.

  • People standing and in wheelchairs on running track
    06 Aug 2025

    Record support for Para-athletes grows in NT

    Para-athletes from the Top End have more access to support and training than ever before following the launch of the new Para Sport Unit in Darwin – the sixth to come online across the nation in the past seven months.

  • Mariah Williams competing
    07 July 2025

    AIS athlete ambassadors promoted into leadership positions

    A powerful program which connects First Nations athletes around the country is celebrating its latest win after two athlete ambassadors were appointed into leadership positions.

  • The research team and athletes Alyce Wood and Ella Sabljak join Sports Minister Anika Wells to launch the AIS Best Practice Recommendations to Support Elite Athletes from Preconception to Parenthood.
    26 June 2025

    World-leading recommendations to support mum athletes

    Australia has taken a momentous step in its bid to become the world leader in athlete wellbeing, today launching new recommendations to support athletes from preconception through to parenthood.

  • Matildas star Elise Kellond-Knight joined the AIS Peer Support Network. Credit: The Matildas.
    20 June 2025

    AIS launches new initiative to help athletes tackle life after sport

    From the highs of representing Australia on the world stage, the return to reality leads many retiring athletes on a long journey to find fulfilment again.

  • QAS ParaUnit Athletes Op 8
    10 June 2025

    First Para Uplift athletes unveiled at QAS

    The push to supercharge Australia’s Paralympic success ahead of Brisbane 2032 has taken a major leap forward, with 20 athletes inducted into the Queensland Academy of Sport’s (QAS) newly established Para Unit.

  • Ella Sabljak competing
    22 May 2025

    Australia steps up to address research gap in women's sport

    The race to close the research gap in women’s sport has taken a significant step with leading Australian researchers and sport scientists commencing a historic two-year project.

  • The Western Australian Institute of Sport Para Unit is the fifth facility to be launched around the country as part of the Para Uplift.
    13 May 2025

    AIS welcomes launch of Australia’s fifth dedicated Para Sport Unit in Perth

    The movement to make Australia a leading Para Sport nation by Brisbane 2032 has continued with the launch of a dedicated centre for Para athletes and sports at the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) in Perth.

  • Wheelchair racer on the athletics track
    27 Mar 2025

    AIS releases updated science and research priorities ahead of LA2028

    The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has released new National Science and Research Priorities for High Performance Sport to help guide science, research and innovation initiatives ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games.

  • QUT scholarship
    24 Mar 2025

    QUT becomes first university to be awarded AIS gold rating

    The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) has awarded Queensland University of Technology (QUT) the country’s first gold tier status under the Elite Sport Education Network (ESEN).

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