Australia at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medal Name Sport Event
Gold Tim Sullivan Athletics Men 's 100 m T38
Gold Tim Sullivan Athletics Men 's 200 m T38
Gold Tim Sullivan Athletics Men 's 400 m T38
Gold Richard Colman Athletics Men 's 800 m T53
Gold Kurt Fearnley Athletics Men 's 5000 m T54
Gold Kurt Fearnley Athletics Men 's Marathon T54
Gold Tim Sullivan , Benjamin Hall , Darren Thrupp , Paul Benz Athletics Men 's 4 × 100 m relay T35-T38
Gold Amy Winters Athletics Women 's 100 m T46
Gold Amy Winters Athletics Women 's 200 m T46
Gold Katrina Webb Athletics Women 's 400 m T38
Gold Christopher Scott Cycling Men 's bicycle road race/time trial CP4
Gold Christopher Scott Cycling Men 's bicycle 3 km individual pursuit CP4
Gold Mark le Flohic Cycling Men 's tricycle road race CP 1/2
Gold Greg Ball Cycling Men 's bicycle 1 km time trial LC 1-4
Gold Anthony Biddle , Kial Stewart Cycling Men 's tandem 1 km time trial B1-3
Gold Peter Brooks Cycling Men 's bicycle 4 km individual pursuit LC1
Gold Kieran Modra , Robert Crowe Cycling Men 's tandem 4 km individual pursuit B1-3
Gold Kieran Modra , David Short Cycling Men 's tandem sprint B1-3
Gold Greg Ball , Peter Brooks , Christopher Scott Cycling Men 's bicycle team sprint LC 1-4 & CP 3/4
Gold Lindy Hou , Janelle Lindsay Cycling Women 's tandem sprint B 1-3
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). 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 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. Some of the other outstanding Australian athletes included: