Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
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The last year has been a year of firsts for Brent Heslehurst: He was chosen to represent Australia for the first time at a Special Olympics World Winter Games and he welcomed his first child with his wife, Emily.
Meet Brenton Heslehurst from Special Olympics Australia.
Digby Webster of Sydney is an artist with Down syndrome whose work has been exhibited across Australia.
Special Olympics provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Those activities give them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship.
Sports Offered: