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Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. It was Australia's 12th year of participation at the Paralympics. The team included 151 athletes (91 men and 60 women).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/reports.html?type=participation&games=2004PG&sport=all )〕 Australian competitors won 101 medals (26 gold, 39 silver and 36 bronze) to finish fifth in the gold medal table and second on the total medal table. Australia competed in 12 sports and won medals in 8 sports. The Chef de Mission was Paul Bird.〔 The Australian team was smaller than the Sydney Games due to a strict selection policy related to the athletes' potential to win a medal〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.paralympic.org.au/games-amp-events/paralympic-games-history-summer/paralympic-games-history-summer )〕 and the International Paralympic Committee's decision to remove events for athletes with an intellectual disability from the Games due to issues of cheating at the Sydney Games. This was due to a cheating scandal with the Spanish intellectually disabled basketball team in the 2000 Summer Paralympics where it was later discovered that only two players actually had intellectual disabilities. The IPC decision resulted in leading Australian athletes such as Siobhan Paton and Lisa Llorens not being able to defend their Paralympic titles. Leading Australian athletes included: * Swimmer Matthew Cowdrey won a total of seven medals * Swimmers Chantel Wolfenden and Prue Watt won six and five medals respectively. * Tim Sullivan won four gold medals in athletics sprints events.〔 * Four athletes won four medals - swimmers and Ben Austin, cyclist Lindy Hou and athletics sprinter Heath Francis〔 * Six athletes won three medals - Don Elgin, Neil Fuller, Kurt Fearnley and Darren Thrupp in athletics and Kieran Modra and Christopher Scott in cycling.〔 == Background of the Athens Games == The 2004 Summer Paralympics, formally known as ''Games of the XXVIII Olympiad,'' was held from September 17 to September 28. The twelfth Paralympic Games, a total of 3,808 competitors (2,643 Men and 1,165 Women) from 135 countries participated. During these games 304 World Records were broken with 448 Paralympic Games Records being broken across 19 different sports. Addition of judo and sitting volleyball for women and football 5-a-side for men were included. The event was made possible through the help of 8,863 volunteers 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Australia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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