Tony Naar has shared news of the Australian Paralympic History Project for 2018. (Link)
Ross Mallet (link) has compiled a list of the page views of articles created through the Australian Paralympic history project.
2018 was a record year for a non-summer Games’ year with 1,971,930 page views … an average of 5,402 views for every day of the year.
Tony notes that whilst the Winter Games in March elevated the number of views, the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and the profiles of two Paralympians, Kurt Fearnley (link) and Dylan Alcott (link) stimulated considerable interest in paralympians and their performances.
Kurt carried the flag for Australia in the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games and was subsequently named as the NSW Australian of the Year for 2019. Dylan became even more of a superstar at the Australian Open in January and then through his media roles.
Tony notes that for the first time in a few years, classification articles did not dominate the top 10 page views, although they did make up half of the top 30 articles viewed.
The top 15 articles about athletes were:
Dylan Alcott 182,838 views
Kurt Fearnley 125,933
Madison de Rozario 44,716
Isis Holt 37,824
Jan Cameron (coach) 35,185
Ashley Adams 30,387
Ellie Cole 25,627
Timothy Disken 22,654
Damien Thomlinson 22,049
Lakeisha Patterson 18,928
Evan O’Hanlon 17,331
Heath Davidson 16,145
Katie Hill 14,087
Kelly Cartwright 12,390
Matt Levy 11,680
Top 15 topic page views were:
T38 (classification) 101,506 views
T35 (classification) 36,828
Disability sport classification 23,685
Para-alpine skiing 21,503
Para-swimming classification 20,055
T44 (classification) 19,974
S9 (classification) 19,312
Para-athletics classification 15,926
S10 (classification) 13,308
T54 (classification) 12,323
S7 (classification) 12,290
S8 (classification) 11,857
BC2 (classification) 11,777
S14 (classification) 11,291
Page views since the start of the Project in 2012
Photo Credit
Katy Parrish (Australian Paralympic Committee, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Link)
