Australia Flame medal tally rises to 16

The Australia Flame have secured four more medals at the IPC athletics world championships to take their tally to 16.

Australia Flame medal tally rises to 16

Scott Reardon's (L) medal at the IPC athletics world championships took Australia's tally to 16.

Scott Reardon's and Angela Ballard's silver medals and Madison de Rozario's and Jayden Sawyer's bronze medals at the IPC athletics world championships in Lyon have taken Australia's total tally to 16 medals.

Reardon was second in the men's T42 leg amputee 200m behind Great Britain's Richard Whitehead.

Ballard and de Rozario finished on the podium behind China's Hongzhuan Zhou in the wheelchair T53 800m.

While Sawyer was third for the Australian Flame in the F37/38 javelin throw for athletes with cerebral palsy or an acquired brain injury.


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