Lauren Parker will be the first Australian since 1992 to compete in two sports at the same Paralympics.

She heads into Paris 2024 as a world champion in both Para-triathlon and Para-cycling.

Emily Petricola won gold on Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2020. Since then, she has won six Para-cycling world titles.

And former military combat engineer Curtis McGrath will be hoping to win his fourth and fifth gold medals in Para-canoe.

While most of Australia's medals usually come from swimming and athletics, there are plenty of other leading prospects in other sports.

Lauren Parker

The AIS Female Para Athlete of the Year in 2023, the remarkable Lauren Parker heads to Paris as both a Para-triathlon and Para-cycling world champion.

Beginning her Para-sport journey as a triathlete in 2018, she won World Championship gold in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. She won silver during her Paralympic debut at Tokyo 2021 and will be hoping to go one better this time out.

And last year, at only her second ever Para-cycling event, Parker was crowned World Champion in the women's H3 individual time trial.

She will be the first Australian since Jodi Willis-Roberts (athletics and goalball) and Kieran Modra (athletics and swimming) at Barcelona 1992 to compete in two sports at the same Paralympics.

Emily Petricola

Emily Petricola only entered her first major Para-cycling tournament in 2018. By 2021, she was a Paralympic gold medallist, and is now a six-time World Champion.

The 44-year-old enters her second Games with a shot at an unprecedented golden hat-trick of the 3,000-metre individual pursuit, individual time trial and road race events.

After Tokyo, she was diagnosed with secondary multiple sclerosis, following her initial diagnosis in 2007. 

Curtis McGrath

In 2016, Curtis McGrath won Australia's first ever gold medal in Para-canoe, with a come-from-behind victory over six-time world champion Markus Swoboda in the KL2.

Two more gold medals followed at Tokyo 2020, defending his KL2 title and winning the VL3. 

Co-captain of the team for Paris 2024, the former military combat engineer's place in the pantheon of Australian Paralympic legends is already well established.

Qian Yang

A Paralympic gold medallist before her 18th birthday, Qian Yang is one of the brightest lights in an Australian Para-table tennis team filled with stars.

Although she has been a Paralympic mainstay since 2012, Paris 2024 will only be her second Games representing Australia.

That's because in her first two Paralympic appearances she wore the colours of China, the country of her birth. 

Immigrating to Australia after Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 was her first Games in the green and gold.

Qian won singles gold and team silver in Tokyo, helping propel her adopted homeland to five table tennis medals, Australia's best ever Paralympic showing.

Dan Michel

Boccia is one of two Paralympic sports, alongside goalball, that doesn't have an Olympic counterpart. 

One of the world's fastest growing Para sports, it can be thought of as a mixture of bocce and lawn bowls.

Dan Michel heads into Paris 2024 as world number one in the BC3 class and will be aiming to win Australia's first boccia gold medal.

But it is in the mixed doubles where Australia's greatest hope lies.

Michel and long-time teammate Jamieson Leeson have swept all competition aside in recent years, and they will be looking to avenge their early exit at Tokyo 2020. 

Jonathon Milne

At Rio 2016, Jonathon Milne won Australia's first Para-archery medal in 32 years, with a bronze in the men's individual compound open.

He was unable to replicate the feat at Tokyo, where he was eliminated before the quarterfinals, but heads into Paris 2024 on the back of a podium finish at the 2023 Para-archery World Championships.

Milne is part of Australia's largest Paralympic archery team since 1984.