A Brisbane swimmer’s fight for a chance made him a five-time champion. But the withdrawal of a marquee event is set to rob athletes of the chance to follow his lead.
Paralympic champion Rowan Crothers admits he was “absolutely garbage” when he started swimming.
Crothers emerged from Brisbane’s schools and Yeronga Park Swim Club to become a five-time world swimming champion, defying his diagnosis with cerebral palsy and bronchopulmonary dysplasia due to his birth 15 weeks premature. “It gives people with a disability the opportunity to be a part of a community and to be a part of something that ordinarily we’re just told no you can’t do this,” Crothers said.The path to the top has been continually daunting for Crothers and other athletes with disabilities, made all the murkier by Victoria’s withdrawal from hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
“You will lose kids in that period of time, so it’s absolutely a capability and capacity issue that we have here.” Based on the qualification data PA have, Clark said the nation had 150 eligible athletes. They would need a team of more than 300 by the time Brisbane 2032 launches.
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