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June-July
2004 - Newsletter
Australian Athletes with a Disability 2004 Athens Paralympics The Australian Paralympic Committee has announced the Australian team for the Athens Paralympics. The full team including staff can be found on the Australian Paralympic Committee website at http://www.paralympic.org.au/files_cms/Team%20Members%202004%20UPDATE%20.doc 2004 Olympics Kurt Fearnley, Louise Sauvage, Eliza Stankovic and Christie Dawes have qualified to compete at the Athens 2004 Olympics Exhibition Event. The wheelchair track exhibition events will take place during the athletics competition on 22 August with the men's 1500m wheelchair race from 20:35- 20:40 and the Women's 800m from 20:45 - 20:49. CPISRA World Games 2005 Entry standards have been released for athletics and swimming for the 2005 CPISRA World Games to be held 1-10 July 2005 in Connecticut, USA, these standards can be found at http://www.cpisra.org/policy.htm National Leaders in Sport Conference The program details of the National Leaders in Sport Conference to be held in Perth on November 11 and 12 this year can now be found on the Department of Sport and Recreation (WA) website at www.dsr.wa.gov.au SPORTS NEWS Basketball - National Wheelchair Basketball League Noel Rowsell reports the Wentworthville Leagues Wheelkings, West Sydney Razorbacks and "Telstra Wide Country" Wollongong Roller Hawks wheelchair basketball teams are all headed to Melbourne on 6th August for the playoff series in the National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) competition. The three NSW teams will be joined in the playoffs by the Dandenong Rangers, who took out the minor premierships despite splitting their final double-header with the Brisbane Spinning Bullets in Carina, Qld last weekend. Last weekend's results were crucial in deciding the final playoff berths, with the former front-runners the Brisbane Spinning Bullets spiraling out of the playoffs after splitting their weekends games to the Rangers. The Rangers took the minor premiership, ahead of the Wheelkings, Wollongong Roller Hawks and Razorbacks in that order. The semi final series will be played in Dandenong beginning on Friday 6th August and concluding with the grand final on Sunday 8th August. - NRMA Insurance National League The finals of the NRMA Insurance National League will be held this weekend at the North Sydney Indoor Sports Stadium, Oxley Street, Crows Nest, Sydney. Details of the Finals are as follows: Saturday 31 July
2004 Sunday 1 August
2004 - Rollers The Australian men's wheelchair basketball team, the Rollers, have continued their impressive form defeating one of the world's best teams, Canada, in the final of the Roosevelt Cup in Warm Springs, USA. It was the first time Australia has beaten Canada since 1996. They are the current Paralympic Champions. This victory comes on top of their recent win over the other world wheelchair basketball powerhouse USA and bodes well for the Paralympic Games in September. - Avon National Club Championships The 2004 Avon National Championships will be held October 30- 31 October 2004 at the Knox Basketball Stadium, Melbourne. For further information contact AAWD. Both individual and team registrations are currently being accepted. - World Under
23 Championships Cue Sports The Cue Sports National Championships will be held September 3rd - 5th 2004 in Victoria. For further information contact AAWD. Lawn Bowls The IPC World Bowls Championships were held in Malaysia during June. Australia won three medals:
Tennis David Hall has added to his victory at the Belgian Open winning the British Open. The points from his British Open win have put David back in the world number one slot. Wheelchair Rugby - National League Round three of the National League was recently held in Brisbane, the results were as follows:
The final round will be held 12-15 August in Melbourne, going into the final round the ladder is as follows:
- Chris Handy Cup The Chris Handy Cup has returned to Australia after a 3-2 series win by the home side in Cairns last weekend. In the fifth and deciding match of the five game annual competition, Australia won 38-34 in front of a supportive Cairns crowd. It was the seventh time the two nations have competed in the Chris Handy Cup, with the tally now standing at 4-3 in favour of Australia. "We had a score to settle after they beat us twice in May," said Australian Team Head Coach, Terry Vinyard. "New Zealand will be in our pool in Athens so it was important to have a good result against them." All five matches were very close, with one going into overtime. The winning margin was never more than six points. Both Australia
and New Zealand are considered medal chances for the Athens Paralympic
Games and, as an indication of their strength, the USA team sent one
of its coaches to film all the Cairns games. Catch up with all the Wheelchair rugby action by logging onto rugby.sports.org.au
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