Para-athletics equipment registry on the radar of Athletics Australia to set up

Isobel Cootes
Updated January 2 2022 - 5:23pm, first published 4:00pm
Prosthetic running blades cost up to $25,000 each and there is no official equipment register to help athletes recycle old ones. Picture: Jay Cronan
Prosthetic running blades cost up to $25,000 each and there is no official equipment register to help athletes recycle old ones. Picture: Jay Cronan

A formal equipment program in athletics to allow para-athletes to pass down their old running blades and wheelchairs to the next generation does not exist but it is on the radar of Athletics Australia.

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Isobel Cootes

Isobel Cootes

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Sports reporter at The Canberra Times. A Novocastrian with a passion for football (or soccer as they call it in the capital) via The Examiner and The Port Lincoln Times.

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