page_title: Australian Paralympic Boccia Team
section_title: 1996
hierarchical_section_title: Australian Paralympic Boccia Team / Summer Paralympic Games / 1996
caption_attribution_description: English: Australian Boccia team - athletes, coaches and ramp assistants - at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games. Front row L-R, athletes Scott Elsworth, John Richardson, Kris Bignall, Tu Huyhn, Lyn Coleman, Fiona Given. Back row L-R, Ricky Grant (assistant coach), Patricia Bignall (carer/ramp assistant), Thomas Organ (head coach), Donald Blackman (carer/ramp assistant), Waltraud (Joan) Stevens (carer/ramp assistant), Joanne Titterton (carer/ramp assistant).
context_page_description: Boccia was the first cerebral palsy sport to be added to the Paralympic program in the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
  Australia first started participating in the 1988 Summer Paralympics
context_section_description: Australia represented by: 
  Men –  Kris Bignall, Scott Elsworth, Tu Huyhn, John Richardson
  Women –  Lynette "Lyn" Coleman, Fiona Given
  Coaches – Thomas Organ (Head), Ricky Grant 
  The 1996 result was the best ever for an Australian team in Boccia, however we did not win any medals.
caption: Australian Boccia team.
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