| Australia at the 2010 Winter Paralympics | |
|---|---|
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| IPC code | AUS |
| NPC | Australian Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Vancouver | |
| Competitors | 11 in 2 sports |
| Flag bearer | Toby Kane (Opening)[1] Cameron Rahles-Rahbula (Closing)[2] |
| Officials | 15 |
| Medals Ranked 16th |
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| Winter Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
At the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,[3] Australia sent 11 athletes to compete against the other participating 42 nations. The delegation consisted of 3 sighted guides and 17 support staff. This was the largest delegation Australia had sent to a Winter Paralympics. Australia has participated in every winter Paralympics since its conception.
In 2010, Dominic Monypenny became the fourth Australian athlete to participate in both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, the others being Kyrra Grunnsund, Anthony Bonaccurso, and Michael Milton.[4] In the lead-up to the 2010 winter Games, nine of the 11 Australian athletes had recorded top 10 finishes in Paralympic, world cup or world championship competitions in their class.
Due to the number of competitors (502 in total), the 2010 Winter Paralympics marked the largest of its kind, following the Torino 2006 Winter Olympics in which only 39 countries took part.[5] Of the participating nations, 2010 was the first winter paralympics for Argentina, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Romania, Russian Federation, and Serbia.[5]
- ^ "Flagbearers from Opening Ceremony" (PDF). IPC. 12 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 June 2010.
- ^ "Rahles-Rahbula flag-bearer". Australian Paralympic Committee News, 21 March 2010. Archived from the original on 10 April 2013. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ^ Athletes: Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics Archived 25 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Official Website of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
- ^ Australian Paralympic Committee Media Guide PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2018.
- ^ a b Brittain, Ian (2014). From Stoke Mandeville to Sochi: A History of the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games. Champaign: Common Ground Publishing. pp. 257–264 – via eBook Collection.