From Australia storming home for a stunning victory in the women’s four to the men’s team pursuit guys defying all odds to bounce back after a crash on the opening night and win bronze, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be remembered forever. We’re proud of our Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holders, not just for their impressive sporting performances, but also for the adversity that they had to overcome to get there.
Rachael Lynch OLY has been honoured as one of five Olympic athletes inducted into the World Olympians Association’s (WOA) Olympians for Life.
Australia’s womens wheelchair basketball side, the Gliders, are primed to make their return to Paralympic competition at Tokyo 2020, nine years after winning the silver medal at the London Paralympics.VIS scholarship holders Isabel Martin and Bree Mellberg have been included in the team.
Their five-year overhaul is complete and Australia’s mens wheelchair basketball side, the Rollers, will head to Tokyo 2020 believing they have what it takes to win the nations first gold medal in the sport since 2008. The squad comprises of Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holders Tristan Knowles and Jeremy Tyndall