Overview
- Australia named a four-athlete para-Nordic squad in Austria after securing two IPC bipartite invitations: Lauren Parker, Matt Brumby, Dave Miln, and Taryn Dickens with sighted guide Lynn Maree Cullen.
- Parker is set to become the eighth Australian to compete at both the Summer and Winter Paralympics.
- Parker says she will contest six events — three biathlon and three cross-country — after first learning to ski in June 2025 and trying a biathlon rifle for the first time in December.
- The selections restore Australian representation in Paralympic biathlon for the first time in 20 years and in para cross-country for the first time since 2010.
- Amanda Reid was also named to the Para snowboard team, reported as the first Indigenous Australian set to compete at a Winter Paralympics, with the Games opening on March 6.