Six added to New Zealand s athletics team for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has announced six new members to its athletics team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, including two debutants.
Of the six, five of them are women and four have competed at a Games before.
Returning for a third Paralympics is Holly Robinson, who won silver in the F46 javelin at Rio 2016.
Robinson made her debut at the Games at London 2012.
In March, Robinson became the first Para-athlete to win a medal in an open event at the New Zealand Track and Field Championships, when she took silver in the women s javelin.
With the Paralympics taking place immediately after, from August 24 to September 5, Lisa said the opportunity to be able to join her elder sister in Tokyo as a competitor made Thursday s announcement extra special. This is my very first experience and I’ve only ever watched my sister before at the Olympics. But I’m excited for my sister and excited for myself, she told
Stuff.
Lisa Adams has been selected to compete at her first Paralympic Games. I’m late to this sport, but when I started Tokyo was the dream and my sister, my coach, helped me turn that into a goal.
New Zealand Celebration Project acknowledges 13 Paralympians in Dunedin Thursday, 11 February 2021
Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has marked its 11th community event as part of The Celebration Project, where the nation s 209 Paralympians since Tel Aviv 1968 are officially recognised and celebrated.
The ceremonies have moved to Dunedin where 13 athletes have been recognised in front of their families and friends as well as PNZ commercial partners.
These 13 are now part of a group of 121 Paralympians who have been officially recognised at ceremonies with an official numbered Paralympic pin and certificate.
Previous ceremonies have taken place twice in Auckland as well as in Whangarei, Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Queenstown, Wellington and Bonn in Germany during 2019 and 2020.