It's a recipe for success that Dvoskina learned during a four year coaching degree at university in the Ukraine, and then developed over a decade as the country's head coach for the Paralympic athletics team.

She moved to Australia in 2002 to be closer to her mother, who is also a coach.

Each athlete has effusively thanked Dvoskina after their victory, saying it was her tough training regimen that made them bring out their best.

'I am very happy [with my athletes],' Dvoskina said.

'We did good preparation and tried to put together everything for them. Thank you very much to the Australian Institute of Sport, they paid for all our training camps.'

When asked the secret to her success, Dvoskina said: "I have been doing my job for 30 years. I am used to planning and prepare for the best result.

'[My mother] is the biggest inspiration in my life ... maybe there is some genetics. I love my job and I am doing it with love. I love my guys.'

But Dvoskina says there is a big difference between attitudes to coaching in Australia and her native Ukraine.

One country takes coaching seriously: the other doesn’t.

'Australian society doesn't think coaching is a real job,' she said.

'They think it's a hobby and everyone can do it. To be a coach in the Ukraine, you had to finish four years at the university. Christine came [to Australia from Germany] because she saw my professionalism as a coach.

'The Australian Institute of Sport is one place where athletics coaches can do the job professionally.'

The Australian Government, through the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), is a long-time supporter of our Paralympians.

During the current Paralympic cycle, the ASC has worked strategically with the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) to plan for a successful Beijing Paralympic campaign.

This partnership has included over $26 million in ASC funding dedicated assisting Australia’s Paralympic athletes in their sporting endeavours.

The ASC also provided in excess of $1 million through the Australian Government Sport Training scheme to targeted athletes from the sports of rowing, powerlifting, equestrian, men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball, cycling, athletics, shooting, table tennis, wheelchair rugby, tennis and swimming, to assist in their preparation for Beijing.

In early 2008, the Australian Government confirmed its continued support of the APC, with an additional $22.8 million in funding over a five year period beginning in 2007/08.

This funding supplements existing Government assistance provided through the Australian Sports Commission to underpin the APC’s national campaign to contest the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing and lays the groundwork for the 2010 Winter Games and the 2012 Summer Games.

It will also provide an enhanced capacity to support Australian Paralympic athletes contesting other international events and assist in the televising of the Paralympics.