Para World Championships

The Para Athletics World Championships have now concluded. Action took place at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Stadium, in London over the past 10 days.

32 world records were broken across the course of the Championships, in what was the most highly attended IPC World Championships to date.

Oceania was represented with athletes from Australia and New Zealand.

Australia had a successful championship, finishing 5^th on the overall medal tally with 11 Gold Medal, 9 Silvers and 8 Bronze Medals.

The stars for Australia were Isis Holt, and James Turner, bringing home 5 gold medals between. Isis, repeated what she did two years ago, in winning the T35 100m and 200m. The 100m in a World Record time, and the 200m in a Championships Record.

James, won 3 gold medals, in the T36 200m, 400m and 800m. In the 800m, it was an Anzac battle ad clean sweep of the medals, with William Stedman running hard for the silver medal, and Keegan pitcher coming home strongly to finish with the bronze medal.

The New Zealand team, was not to be outdone, building from their successful lead in at the Oceania Championships, NZ finished with 5 medals overall, which improved on just 1 medal from 2 years ago, in Doha.

New Zealand, rounded out the preparations for the Championships, by competing at the Oceania Championships, in Suva, Fiji.