{"id":33153,"date":"2023-08-28T23:32:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=33153"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:03:19","slug":"australian-team-claims-five-gold-medals-at-ibsa-world-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2023\/08\/28\/australian-team-claims-five-gold-medals-at-ibsa-world-games","title":{"rendered":"Australian Team claims five Gold Medals at IBSA World Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian team performed strongly at the IBSA World Games in Great Britain, with four players winning gold medals.<\/p>\n

The International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games are the largest high-level international event for visually impaired athletes and were held in Birmingham from 18-27 August.<\/p>\n

An 11-member Australian team claimed a total of nine medals. With five of these gold, Australia was the top-performing nation at the event.<\/p>\n

Grace Hobbs, a 20-year-old from New South Wales, scooped two gold medals. As did Mick Leigh from New South Wales and Victorian Ross Patterson.<\/p>\n

Other medal winners included New South Wales teen Courtney Webeck and South Australian Mark Haskett.<\/p>\n

While Arato Kasato-Green, the youngest member of the Australian team at 11 years old, won multiple medals too \u2013 silver in doubles and bronze in singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
IBSA World Games 2023<\/strong>
\nAustralian medal winners<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Player<\/em><\/td>\nMedal<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Grace Hobbs<\/td>\nGold (B2\/4 women’s doubles)
\nGold (B4\/5 women’s singles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Leigh<\/td>\nGold (B3 men’s singles)
\nGold (B2\/4 men’s doubles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ross Patterson<\/td>\nGold (B4\/5 men’s singles)
\nGold (B2\/4 men’s doubles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Courtney Webeck<\/td>\nGold (B2\/4 women’s doubles)
\nBronze (B2 women’s singles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mark Haskett<\/td>\nSilver (B2 men’s singles)
\nSilver (B2\/4 men’s doubles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arato Katsuda-Green<\/td>\nSilver (B2\/4 men’s doubles)
\nBronze (B4\/5 men’s singles)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

> VIEW: Full results from the IBSA World Games\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

More than 1000 athletes from 70 nations competed across multiple sports at the IBSA World Games, which are held every four years.<\/p>\n

This was the first time that Tennis Australia has supported a blind and low vision (BLV) team at an international event.<\/p>\n

The Australian team is now travelling to Poland to compete at the IBTA BLV World Tennis Championships<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Book online, play today:<\/strong>\u00a0Visit\u00a0play.tennis.com.au<\/a>\u00a0to get out on court and have some fun!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian team has won nine medals, including five gold medals, at the 2023 IBSA World Games in Great Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6366,"featured_media":33154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitive-play","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}