Australian Paralympic Table Tennis Team
# Australian Paralympic Table Tennis Team

Australia was represented in table tennis at the 1960 Summer Paralympics.In the early Games, many Australian table tennis players represented Australia in several sports. It was won 8 medals - 2 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Gold medallists are:

* Daphne Ceeney and Marion O'Brien in 1964
* Terry Biggs in 1984
* Lei Lina in 2021 (2020 Summer Paralympics)
* Qian Yang in 2021 (2020 Summer Paralympics)

## Medal tally

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1960 Rome | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964 Tokyo | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 1968 Tel-Aviv | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972 Heidelberg | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976 Toronto | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 Arnhem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 Stoke Mandeville | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1988 Seoul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 Barcelona | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 Atlanta | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 Sydney* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 Athens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 Beijing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2012 London | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 Rio | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 Tokyo | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Totals (16 entries) | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14 |

## Summer Paralympic Games

### 1960

Australia represented by:

Men - Bruno Moretti, Bill Mather-Brown

Australia won a silver medal in Men's Doubles B - Bruno Moretti, Bill Mather-Brown

### 1964

Australia represented by:

Men - Allan McLucas

Women - Daphne Ceeney, Marion O'Brien, Elaine Schreiber

Australia won 1 gold and 3 bronze medals.

### 1968

Australia represented by:

Men - Kevin Bawden, Alan Conn, Kevin Coombs, John Martin, Bill Mather-Brown, Allan McLucas, Bruno Moretti, Jimmy Newton, Tony South, Don Watts

Women - Lorraine Dodd, Daphne Hilton, Cherrie Loydstrom, Marion O'Brien, Elaine Schreiber, Pam Smith

Australia won 1 silver medal in Women's Doubles C - Marion O'Brien, Elaine Schreiber.

### 1972

Australia represented by:

Men – Bob Millan, Cliff Rickard

Women - ?

Australia did not win any medals.

### 1976

Australia represented by: Men – Kevin Bawden, Wayne Flood, Ray Letheby, Peter Marsh, John Martin, Ross Soutar

Women – Elaine Schreiber Australia did not win any medals.

### 1980

Australia represented by:

Men – Donald Dann, Peter Marsh, John Martin, John Sheil, Charlie Tapscott

Australia did not win any medals.

### 1984

Australia represented by:

Men – Terry Biggs, Paul Croft, Garry Croker Joe Marlow, Errol Smith

Women – Carmel Williams

Australian won a gold medal through Terry Biggs performance.

### 1988

Australia represented by:

Men – Geoffrey Barden, Marcel Bucello, Paul Croft, Garry Croker, Jeremy Halloran, Craig Parson, John Sheil, Ian Simpson

Women – Carmel Williams

Australia did not win any medals.

### 1992

Australia represented by:

Men – Csaba Bobory

Australia won no medals.

### 1996

No athletes

### 2000

Australia represented by:

Men - Bill Medley, Ross Schurgott

Officials - Head Coach - Joe Hoad (Head) ; Officials - Carmel Medley

Australia was given two wild card entries due to it being the host nation. It did not win any medals as no athlete progressed past the first round.

### 2004

No athletes

### 2008

Australia represented by: Women - Rebecca Julian, Sarah Lazzaro

Officials - Head Coach - Brian Berry, Section Manager - Barbara Talbot Catherine Morrow was selected but withdrew from the team.

Australia did not win any medals.

### 2012

Australia represented by: Women- Melissa Tapper, Rebecca McDonnell

Officials - Head Coach - Alois Rosario ; Team Leader - Roger Massie

Australia did not win any medals.

### 2016

Australia represented by:

Women- Daniela Di Toro, Melissa Tapper, Andrea McDonnell (d)

Men- Barak Mizrachi (d), Samuel Von Einem (d)

Officials - Head Coach - Alois Rosario ; Team Leader - Roger Massie

Sam Von Einem in winning the silver medal won Australia's first medal since Terry Biggs won gold in 1984.

(d)= Paralympic Games debut

