Nationals 2025 Wrap: Para Championships
Team VIC continue to make us proud with their fierce showing at the Para Championships as part of Nationals 2025. Our Para team crossed the Bass Strait and headed to the North-West coast of Tasmania to Burnie Bowls Club in cold, wet and even hailing conditions.
Our Para Squad competed across 5 days from Tuesday to Saturday across Singles, Pairs and Triples with some excellent results.
Para Men
In the Men’s Triples JT (Josh Thornton) skipped Lucas Protopapas and Josh Barry to first place earning our only gold medals of the Para Championships. An absolute nailbiter of a section that came down to the very last bowl, this live streamed match had us on the edge of our seats – well done to all three bowlers.
JT made it to the Men’s Singles semi-final against newly crowned World Bowls Para Singles Men’s Champion James Reynolds in a tight battle that came down to the wire. Reynolds picked up a 1 to take the lead, after which the game was unfortunately timed out. This earned JT a Bronze medal for the Men’s Singles and also Player of the Series for his stellar campaign. Congratulations JT!
The dynamite combo of Lucas Protopapas and Josh Barry in the Men’s Pairs secured 2 wins to head into the semi-final before being defeated by NSW. Their run still earned them bronze medals for the Men’s Pairs.
Para Women
Stella Durdin, Annette Ruffle and Allison East teamed up for the triples with a slow start against SA before nabbing a round 2 win over Tassie and a win against WA to help secure the trio Bronze Medals in the triples.
Our women’s pairs team of Stella Durdin and Allison East have fought valiantly through some challenging matches and in the women’s singles Annette Ruffle finished 4th overall.
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Article was last updated 18.11.2025 at 10.13am AEDT.
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