page_title: Australia national wheelchair rugby team
section_title: 2006 Christchurch New Zealand
hierarchical_section_title: Australia national wheelchair rugby team / World Championships / 2006 Christchurch New Zealand
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Australian wheelchair rugby player Ryley Batt, Australian Paralympic athlete. Action shot circa 2007
context_page_description: Wheelchair rugby is a sport with national representation at the Paralympic games. The Australian Team is known as the 'Steelers'.
  Australia has competed at every Paralympics Games since the sport gained full Paralympic Medal status at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. The Steelers also competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics where wheelchair rugby was a demonstration sport. The 'Steelers' defeated Canada at the 2012 London Games to win its first gold medal. In 2014, it won its first World Championship by defeating Canada. In winning the world championship, the Steelers became the second nation in history to hold both the Paralympic and world championship titles concurrently. The Australian Paralympic Committee currently manages the Steelers high performance program.
  The sport is not included at the Special Olympics or the Deaflympics.
context_section_description: Australia represented by:
  Men - Ryan Scott  (0.5), Nazim Erdem (0.5), Gary Read (0.5), Bryce Alman (2.0), Kevin Kersnovske (2.0), Steve Porter  (2.5), Grant Boxall (2.5), Patrick Ryan (2.5) George Hucks (3.0), Brad Dubberley (3.5), Ryley Batt (3.5)
  Coaches - Evan Bennett (Head Coach), Brad Dubberley (Assistant Coach)
  Officials - Kim Ellwood (Manager)
caption: Ryley Batt is regarded as one of the leading players in the world since 2004
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "1668", "Image ImageLength": "1887", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "Ryley Batt -\nAustralian Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby player - \nGame action shot circa 2007", "Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D3", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2012:08:17 13:19:04", "Image Artist": "Sport the library", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image Rating": "0", "Image Tag 0x4749": "0", "Image Copyright": "Australian Paralympic Committee\nLicenced under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)", "Image XPTitle": "[65, 0, 80, 0, 67, 0, 32, 0, 50, 0, 48, 0, 49, 0, 50, 0, 32, 0, 85, 0, 110, 0, 105, 0, 102, 0, 111, 0, 114, 0, 109, 0, 32, 0, 76, 0, 97, 0, 117, 0, 110, 0, 99, 0, 104, 0, 0, 0]", "Image XPComment": "[32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, 32, 0, ... ]", "Image XPAuthor": "", "Image XPSubject": "[82, 0, 121, 0, 108, 0, 101, 0, 121, 0, 32, 0, 66, 0, 97, 0, 116, 0, 116, 0, ... ]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Image ExifOffset": "3340", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "Image GPSInfo": "6008", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "6122", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7645", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/400", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Manual", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "2500", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2007:10:09 08:42:46", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2007:10:09 08:42:46", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "540241/62500", "EXIF ApertureValue": "1485427/500000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "300", "EXIF SubSecTime": "38", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "38", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "38", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1668", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1887", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 2]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Manual Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "300", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "High gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Hard", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}