Australia participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. It sent its largest away team - 179 athletes to a Summer Paralympics. Australia finished eighth on the gold medal table and sixth on the total medals table.
In May 2017, Paralympics Australia announced Kate McLoughlin as the Chef de Mission, McLoughlin held the position at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. In November 2019, wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt and table tennis player Daniela di Toro, were named as co-captains. They were also named as joint flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony. Ellie Cole was the flag bearer at the Closing Ceremony. Cole became Australia's most decorated female Paralympian during the Games with her silver and bronze medals in swimming taking her to 17 Paralympic medals.
Notable achievements at the Games:
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Sport Australia provided funding to Paralympics Australia â $3,735,548 (2016/17), $5,019,780 (2017/18), $13,578,880 (2018/19), $8,634,280 (2019/20). The 2021/22 Australian Government budget provided $3.5 million due to increased operational costs for the Australian Paralympic Team's participation in the Tokyo Paralympic Games due to the impact of COVID-19. Sport Australia also provides funding to national sports organisations to support their Paralympic athletes. The breakdown of this funding is not available.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in Parliament on 2 September 2021 that the Australian Government would finance equivalent payments to Australian Paralympic medallists to that provided by the Australian Olympic Committee to Olympic medallists - $20,000 cash bonus for Olympic gold medallists, while silver medallists and bronze medallists take home $15,000 and $10,000.
Paralympics Australia required all Australian athletes and officials to have a COVID-19 vaccination to be considered for selection, whereas the Australian Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee only strongly recommended the vaccine for those travelling to Tokyo. Paralympics Australia stated "This underpins PA's duty of care and the responsibility to do everything in our power to keep each and every team member safe for the duration of our stay in Tokyo and our journey home again."
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Please note that guides in athletics and paratriathlon and cox in rowing are counted as athletes at the Paralympics by Paralympics Australia.
Team of four archers selected on 26 July 2021. Men â Jonathon Milne, Peter Marchant, Taymon Kenton-Smith; Women â Imalia Oktrininda.
|- |align=left| Jonathon Milne |align=left rowspan=1|Men's individual compound |692 |8 | |align="center" |<br />L 141âÂÂ143 |align="center" colspan=4|Did not advance |- |align=left| Peter Marchant |align=left rowspan=1|Men's individual compound |664 |31 |align="center" |<br />W 138âÂÂ136 |align="center" |<br />L 139âÂÂ141 |align="center" colspan=4|Did not advance |- |align=left| Taymon Kenton-Smith |align=left rowspan=1|Men's individual recurve |604 |18 |align="center" |<br />L 4-6 |align="center" colspan=5|Did not advance |- |align=left| Imalia Oktrininda |align=left rowspan=1|Women's individual recurve |564 |13 |align="center" |<br />W 7âÂÂ1 |align="center" |<br />L 0âÂÂ6 |align="center" colspan=4|Did not advance |- |align=left| Taymon Kenton-Smith<br />Imalia Oktrininda |align=left rowspan=1|Mixed team recurve |1186 |8 |<br />L 0âÂÂ6 |align="center" colspan=5|Did not advance
Team of 36 athletes selected on 23 July 2021.
Technical officials flagged that Hodgetts and Ecuador's Jordi Congo-Villalba and Malaysian Muhammad Ziyad Zolkefli were late to the pre-event call-room, and even though the competition went ahead the results of the trio would be registered as DNS.
Badminton will make its debut at the Summer Paralympics, two athletes were selected â Caitlin Dransfield and Grant Manzoney.
Daniel Michel, Spencer Cotie and Jamieson Leeson were selected on 21 June 2021.
12 athletes selected on 9 July 2021. Men â Gordon Allan, Grant Allen, Alistair Donohoe, Stuart Jones, Darren Hicks, David Nicholas, Stuart Tripp; Women â Carol Cooke, Paige Greco, Meg Lemon, Emily Petricola, Amanda Reid
On 10 July 2021, four riders were selected. Sharon Jarvis became the first Australian Paralympian to be selected for three Games.
The Australian women's goalball team qualified in a ranking tournament in the US in JuneâÂÂJuly 2019. The team was announced on 18 June 2021 as Jennifer Blow, Meica Horsburgh, Raissa Martin, Amy Ridley, Brodie Smith, and Tyan Taylor.
On 27 July 2021, Wayne Phipps was selected, Australia's first representative since 2008 Summer Paralympics.
A team of six athletes and two guides on 19 July 2021. Four athletes were selected to make their Paralympics Games debut.
Australia qualified three boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Paralympic regatta. Rowing crews in the men's single sculls and mixed coxed four qualified after successfully entering the top eight at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria. Meanwhile, mixed double sculls crews qualified after finishing second at the 2021 Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta in Gavirate, Italy.
At 12 July 2021, Australia eight rowers to compete. Kathryn Ross was selected four her fourth Games and Erik Horrie his third Games.
<small>Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage</small>
Three athletes were selected on 20 July 2021.
32 athletes were selected on 16 June 2021. Matthew Levy was selected for his fifth Paralympics. There are 15 debutants. Braedan Jason was added to the team on 14 July 2021 after Australia was granted an additional spot. Blake Cochrane was added to the team on 26 July 2021.
<small> Swimmers who participated in the heats only.</small>
Australia entered eleven athletes into the table tennis competition at the games. Ten of them qualified from 2019 ITTF Oceanian Para Championships which was held in Darwin, and Yang Qian qualified via World Ranking allocation. Team of 11 athletes selected on 5 July 2021.
Australia selected one athlete for the inaugural para taekwondo competition.
Gliders team of 12 athletes was announced on 16 July 2021. Rollers team of 12 athletes was announced on 21 July 2021.
Group B
Quarter-finals
5thâÂÂ6th classification match
Bracket
Group A
Classification playoffs âÂÂ9th/10th
Australia national wheelchair rugby team qualified for the Games by winning the silver medal at the 2018 World Championships in Sydney.
On 29 July 2021, Australia selected twelve players two compete, with four athletes making their games debut.
Australia qualified four players entries for wheelchair tennis. Three players qualified by the world rankings, meanwhile the other qualified by received the bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.