page_title: Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
section_title: Women's tournament
hierarchical_section_title: Australia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics / Events / Wheelchair Basketball / Women's tournament
caption_attribution_description: English: The Australian women's wheelchair basketball team - the Gliders - line up for the national anthem before their game against Brazil at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games
context_page_description: Australia sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. The country sent 167 athletes in 13 sports and 122 officials. It was the country's largest ever Paralympic delegation to an away Games. The team sent to Beijing was described as the emergence of the new generation of Australian athletes with 56 percent of the team attending their first Paralympic Games. The delegation's chef de mission was Darren Peters.
  Australia won 23 gold, 29 silver and 27 bronze medals. It finished fourth on the total medal tally and fifth on the gold medal tally.
  Major sporting achievements for the Australian team included:
  Matt Cowdrey, an arm amputee swimmer, winning five gold and three silver medals to be the Games' leading athlete.
  Peter Leek, a cerebral palsy swimmer, winning eight medals including three gold.
  Heath Francis, an arm amputee sprinter and Evan O'Hanlon, cerebral palsy sprinter winning three gold medals.
  Kurt Fearnley, a wheelchair racer, winning the marathon for the second time.
  Australian men's wheelchair basketball team winning gold.
  98 Australian athletes won a medal.
context_section_description: The women's team known as the 'Gliders' won the bronze medal defeating Japan in the playoff.
  Team roster
  Clare Burzynski, Shelley Chaplin, Cobi Crispin, Melanie Domaschenz, Kylie Gauci, Melanie Hall, Katie Hill, Bridie Kean, Tina McKenzie, Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Sarah Stewart, Liesl Tesch
  Coaches – Gerry Hewson (Head Coach), Mark Hewish
  Officials – Sonia Healy (Section Manager), Emma Whiteside.
  Group A Standings'
  Group A Table
  Source: Paralympic.org
  (Q) Qualified for quarterfinals.
  Quarter-finals
  Semi-finals
  Bronze medal game
caption: The Gliders lining up for the national anthem.
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