Wheelchair tennis player Nico Langmann, swimmer Andreas Onea - a bronze medallist at Rio 2016 - and table tennis player Daniel Pauger will all have use of the centres.

Double Paralympic gold medallist on the track Gunther Matzinger, winner of the 400 metres and 800m T46 double at London 2012, and canoeist Markus Swoboda, are the other beneficiaries of the scheme.

It follows an agreement reached between the Austrian Federal Ministry for National Defence and Sport and the Austrian Paralympic Committee (APC).

The APC hope it can be rolled out to include further athletes on the road to Tokyo 2020. 

"Since undertaking my position as Minister of Sports, I have been trying to open the sport centres for the Paralympic athletes as well," Austria’s Sports Minister Peter Doskozil said.

"At Rio 2016, the Austrian athletes represented the country excellently with great performances and winning many medals.

"The inclusion of athletes with impairment at the military sport centres is an important step for Austria’s Para-sports."

It is hoped the initiative will help improve Austria’s performance at Tokyo 2020 after they departed Rio 2016 with a haul of nine medals.

Veteran equestrian rider Pepo Puch was the only athlete from the country to secure a gold medal as he topped the podium in the individual championship test grade lb event.

"This is a big goal we have achieved," APC President Maria Rauch-Kallat added.

"I would like to thank Hans Peter Doskozil for giving us a fast and uncomplicated answer to our request."

Onea, who clinched a silver medal at the International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships in Montreal in 2013 before earning bronze two years later in Glasgow, said: "History was written and I am very proud to be one of the first five athletes.

"It is not only a great recognition of our achievements but also shows their interest in including Para-athletes in this system as well."