Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian athlete Neil Fuller on his way to a silver medal in the T44 200m event at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. At his second Games, Fuller won silver in each of the sprints (100m and 200m) and his second of 3 consecutive gold medals in the 4X100m relay. Fuller’s ‘blade’ running leg was on the way to its current form, even if the strapping to hold it in place was possibly not the most elegant. By the time he hung up his running shoe and blade after the 2004 Games, Fuller had won 15 Paralympic medals, 6 of them gold.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Australian T53 wheelchair athlete Paul Wiggins (centre, number 4 on helmet) competes on the track at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games. By 1996, racing chairs had largely developed the design seen today – longer, with a large single front wheel, small push rims, custom made bucket seat with legs tucked under and carbon fibre wheels were starting to appear.

Date: August 1996

Author: Image taken by John Sherwell for Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

1992 Australian Paralympic Team athlete Louise Sauvage after a race at the Barcelona 1992 Paralympic Games, her first. Her racing chair shows the advances made since the first Games, with cambered rear wheels, small push rims, a mechanism for locking the steering in the corners, feet in a sling under the custom fitted seat and a single, larger front wheel mounted on a rail frame in advance of the pushing wheels.

Date: September 1992

Author: Norman Bailey, photographer

With their stylised racing chairs and retro headwear, these two competitors at the 1988 Seoul summer Paralympics look as if they have been transported from an era of penny farthings and gentlemen’s sport, rather than the first ‘modern’ Paralympics.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

A journalist covering the 1988 summer Paralympics types up a story on a personal computer. 1988 was the start of the era of the personal computer.

Date: October 1988

Author: Image donated to Paralympics Australia by Donald Worley.

This was a state of the art racing wheelchair at the 1984 summer Paralympics. It has a custom made fibreglass seat, small pushrims, minimal tubing, cambered wheels and the front wheels are pushed out in front. Nowadays, it would probably be considered ‘unsafe at any speed’.

Date: July 1984

Author: This image is a still from a film made by Donald Worley about Australia's participation at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville, England.

Neil Fuller led Australia’s strong men’s amputee sprinting program at the Sydney Summer Paralympics, with two individual and two relay gold medals. Over a career that spanned four Paralympics, Fuller won 15 medals, including 6 gold. In Sydney, Fuller’s carbon fibre running leg was the latest technology but the strapping to secure it would soon be replaced by better cup technology.

Date: October 2000

Author: Image by Sport The Library. All rights held by Paralympics Australia.

Grant Prest (closest to camera) and the Australian Team prepare to return a serve during the standing volleyball competition at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Prest’s prosthetic leg contained the latest in technology with its knee and ankle joints, allowing him to jump and move around the court during the intense rallies of a volleyball game.

Date: October 2000

Author: Sport the Library

For the first time, Australian Paralympic cyclists and other athletes had access to the latest technology, in addition to professional coaching and athlete support. Greg Ball has some of the technology on display as he rides for gold on the track in the team sprint at the Sydney summer Paralympics. Ball was the specialist lead out rider in the team sprint, able to generate power off the start to set his two teammates up for the final two laps. Australia dominated the cycling competition in Sydney.