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23/12/2009

2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympic team unveiled

The Australian Winter Paralympic team includes 11 athletes and three guides for vision impaired athletes. Fifteen staff will support the athletes at events at Vancouver and Whistler.

For the first time the Australian team includes two female athletes – Jessica Gallagher and Melissa Perrine. Both are vision impaired, as is Bart Bunting who, like Jessica and Melissa, will compete in Alpine skiing.

About 600 athletes from 45 countries will compete at the tenth Winter Paralympic Games in Canada.