Events at the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games

At the 1962 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth, Western Australia eighty nine athletes from nine countries competed in fourteen events.^[1][2]

Medals by Events[]

Archery[]

The FITA Round for Gentlemen consists of 36 arrows from each of the following distances – at 90, 70, 50, and 30 metres. FITA Round for Ladies consists of 36 arrows from each of the following distances – 70, 60, 50 and 30 metres. Windsor Round consists of 36 arrows at 60, 50, 40 yards. Columbia Round consists of 24 arrows at 50, 40, 30 yards. St Nicholas Round consists of 48 arrows at 40 yards and 36 arrows at 30 yards.^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
FITA Round Gentlemen	Richard Hollick  England 873	Anthony Potter  England 844	Ross Sutton  Australia 779
FITA Round Ladies	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 898	Margaret Maughan  England 475	No medal
Windsor Round Gentleman	Richard Hollick  England 803	Anthony Potter  England 800	Ross Sutton  Australia 773
Windsor Round Ladies	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 774	R. Harvey  Scotland 485	Margaret Maughan  England 455
Columbia Round Gentlemen	John Rein  Australia 544	Stefan Gawanick  England 496	Wilf Martin  New Zealand 463
Columbia Round Ladies	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 507	P. Foulds  England 281	Sally Haynes  England 247
St. Nicholas Gentlemen	Wilf Martin  New Zealand 632	D. Tinsley  Australia 608	John Newton  Australia 570
St. Nicholas Ladies	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 534	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 464	Dr Gaynor Harry  Wales 388

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Dartchery[]

Dartchery is a combination of darts and archery.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	John Rein, Ross Sutton  Australia	Richard Hollick, Anthony Potter  England	No medal

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Javelin Throw[]

Classification: Class A – paralysed above segment T10 – complete paralysis ; Class B – paralysed above segment T10 – incomplete paralysis ; Class C – paralysed below segment T10 ; Class D – cauda equina with functioning thigh muscles.^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male Class A	Dick Thompson  England 59 ' 9 "	Frank Ponta  Australia 46 ' 4 3/4"	T. Moran  England 40 ' 3/4 "
Male Class B	Gary Hooper  Australia 57 ' 9 "	D. Pickering  England 48 ' 7 1/4"	Bruno Moretti  Australia 41 ' 5 3/4 "
Male Class C	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 59 ' 2 "	R. Maxwell  Australia 53 ' 5 "	D. Tinsley  Australia 53 ' 2 1/4 "
Male Class D	R. Scott  England 81 ' 11 1/2 "	Kevin Cunningham  Australia 60 ' 3 "	John Turich  Australia 51 ' 1 "
Female Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 27 ' 5 "	Janet Laughton  England 24 ' 9 1/4 "	Pamela McCarthy  India 14 ' 5 1/2 "
Female Class B	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 35 ' 3 3/4"	R. Harvey  Scotland 22 ' 4 3/4'	Shelagh Jones  England 22 ' 4 1/2 "
Female Class C	Daisy Flint  England 26 ' 11 3/4 "	V. Forder  England 17 ' 9 3/4 "	No medal
Female Class D	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 34 ' 9 "	Marion Edwards  England 29 ' 5 3/4 "	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 26 '

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Precision Javelin[]

Precision javelin involved throwing a javelin on a target on the ground. Classification: Class A – paralysed above segment T10 – complete paralysis ; Class B – paralysed above segment T10 – incomplete paralysis ; Class C – paralysed below segment T10 ; Class D – cauda equina with functioning thigh muscles) .^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male Class A	Frank Ponta 64 points	Dick Thompson  England 60 points	Bruce Thwaite  Australia 60 points
Male Class B	Gary Hooper  Australia 66 points	D. Pickering  England 62 points	Bruno Moretti  Australia 48 points
Male Class C	Pompi Heremaia New Zealand 72 points	T. Palmer  England 70 points	N. Macdonald  Scotland 64 points
Male Class D	J. Gidney  Australia 64 points	John Turich  Australia 52 points	B. Dickenson  England 50 points
Female Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 60 points	Janet Laughton  England 36 points	Pamela McCarthy  India 0 points
Female Class B	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 48 points	R. Harvey  Scotland 42 points	Gwen Buck  England 28 points
Female Class C	Daisy Flint  England 66 points	V. Forder  England 2 points	No medal
Female Class D	Daphne Ceeney 60 points	Marion Edwards  England 50 points	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 22 points

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Club Throw[]

Club throw involved throwing a wooden object in the form of a club. Classification: Class A – paralysed above segment T10 – complete paralysis; Class B – paralysed above segment T10 – incomplete paralysis; Class C – paralysed below segment T10; Class D – cauda equina with functioning thigh muscles.^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male Class A	Dick Thompson  England 107 ' 5 "	Frank Ponta  Australia 80 ' 7 1/2 "	T. Moran  England 75 ' 5 "
Male Class B	Gary Hooper  Australia 97 ' 3/4 "	D. Pickering  England 87 ' 11 "	Bruno Moretti  Australia 81 ' 10 3/4 "
Male Class C	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 107 ' 10 1/2"	R. Rowe  England 96 ' 1/4 "	T. Palmer  England 92 ' 8 "
Male Class D	R. Scott  England 117 ' 4 3/4 "	John Turich  Australia 115 ' 1/4 "	J. Gidney  Australia 87 ' 5 "
Female Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 54 ' 3 3/4 "	Janet Laughton  England 46 ' 1'	No medal
Female Class B	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 67 ' 3/4 '	Shelagh Jones  England 41 ' 9 7/8 "	Gwen Buck  England 40 ' 8 1/4 "
Female Class C	V. Forder  England 51 ' 1 1/4 "	Daisy Flint  England 40 ' 1 1/2 '	No medal
Female Class D	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 61 ' 2 1/2 "	Marion Edwards  England 56 ' 1/2 "	Dr Gaynor Harry  Wales 50 ' 7 "

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Shot Putt[]

Classification: Class A – paralysed above segment T10 – complete paralysis; Class B – paralysed above segment T10 – incomplete paralysis; Class C – paralysed below segment T10; Class D – cauda equina with functioning thigh muscles.^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male Class A	Dick Thompson  England 61 ' 2 1/2 "	Frank Ponta  Australia 16 ' 18 1/4 "	J. Redgewick  England 15 ' 4 1/2 "
Male Class B	Gary Hooper  Australia 20 ' 3 3/4 "	P. Pickering  England 19 ' 1 1/4 "	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 15 ' 9 1/2 "
Male Class C	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 20 ' 2 1/4 "	N. McDonald  Scotland 19 ' 6 "	M. Shelton  England 19 ' 2 3/4 "
Male Class D	R. Scott  Australia 22 ' 4 "	John Turich  Australia 22 ' 1/2 "	Roger Cockerill  Australia 19 ' 11"
Female Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 11 ' 3 1/2 "	Janet Laughton  England 10 ' 5 "	No medal
Female Class B	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 15 ' 2 1/4 "	G. Buck  England 11 ' 8 1/4 "	R. Harvey  Scotland 11 ' 4 "
Female Class C	V, Forder  England 11 ' 1 3/4 "	Daisy Flint  England 10 ' 9 1/2 '	No medal
Female Class D	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 15 ' 7 1/2 "	Marion Edwards  England 13 ' 2 1/4 "	Margaret Ross  Australia 12 ' 4 1/2"

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Swimming[]

Swimming events took place in the Beatty Park Pool that was built for the main Games. It was the only event not held at the Showgrounds and therefore posed transport problems for the organisers. This was overcome through volunteer drivers and their cars.^[4] Classes for swimming – Class A – paralysed from C8 to T6 segment, Class B – paralysed from T7 to T10 segment – complete paralysis, Class C – paralysed from T7 to T10 segment – incomplete paralysis, Class D – paralysed from T11 to L2 segment and Class E ().^[3] 5,500 spectators including Hon. David Brand, Premier of Western Australia attended the second (and final) day of swimming at the Beatty Park Pool. The events were interspersed by swimming and diving demonstrations by members of the Australian British Empire Games team including Murray Rose, Dawn Fraser and David Dickson.^[5]

There was also a demonstration by the Western Australian water polo team.^[6]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Male – Crawl 25 m Class A	M. Bazeley  Australia 34.6	F. Crowder  England 44.5	Frank Ponta  Australia 47.7
Male – Crawl 50 m Class B	Bruce Thwaite  Australia 1:09.5	J. Robertson  Scotland 1:37.2	No medal
Male – Crawl 50 m Class C	Alan Yeomans  Australia 1:00.1	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 1:00.2	Gary Hooper  Australia 1:52.7
Male – Crawl 25 m Class D	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 47.3	B. Dickenson  England 49.7	Kevin Cunningham  Australia 50.4
Male – Breaststroke 25 m Class A	M. Bazeley  Australia 29.7 (record)	F. Crowder  England 48.2	Frank Ponta  Australia 55.1
Male – Breaststroke 50 m Class B	Bruce Thwaite  Australia 1:27.6	No medal	No medal
Male – Breaststroke 50 m Class C	Alan Yeomans  Australia 1:14.2	Gary Hooper  Australia 1:38.07	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 1:44.04
Male – Breaststroke 50 m Class D	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 1:02.06	Don Watts  Australia 1:09.8	B. Dickenson  England 1:10.5
Male – Backstroke 25 m Class A	F. Crowder  England 33.9	M. Bazeley  Australia 33.9	Frank Ponta  Australia 36.2
Male – Backstroke 50 m Class C	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 1:21.04	Alan Yeomans  Australia 1:37.4	Gary Hooper  Australia 1:41.9
Male – Backstroke 25 m Class D	B. Dickenson  England 47.2	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 56.4	Peter McCranor  England 1:21.3
Female –Crawl25 m Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 36.2 (record) P. McCarthy  India 1.13.4 (awarded Gold Medal as incomplete Class A)	Lady Susan Masham  England 58.5	Refer to Gold Medal
Female – Crawl 50 m Class B	No race
Female – Crawl 50 m Class C	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 49.6	Daisy Flint  England 1:42.6	No medal
Female – Crawl 50 m Class D	No race
Female – Crawl 50 m Class E	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 49.4	Margaret Ross Australia 52.6	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 1:00.7
Female – Breaststroke 25 m Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 34.9 (record)	Lady Susan Masham  England 52.6	No medal
Female – Breaststroke 50 m Class B	Janet Laughton  England swan alone	No medal	No medal
Female – Breaststroke 50 m Class C	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 1:05.6	Daisy Flint  England 1:59.2	Shelagh Jones  England 2:31.6
Female – Breaststroke 50 Class D	V. Forder  England 1:58.7	No competitor	No medal
Female – Breaststroke 50 m Class E	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 1:41.8	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 1:50.0	Margaret Ross  Australia 1:56.1
Female – Backstroke 25 m Class A	Lorraine Dodd  Australia 48.7	Lady Susan Masham  England 52.6	No medal
Female – Backstroke 50 mm Class B	Janet Laughton England swam alone	No medal	No medal
Female – Backstroke 50 m Class C	Lynne Gilchrist  Rhodesia 56.5	A. Masson  England 1:15.2	Daisy Flint  England 1:20.4
Female – Backstroke 50 m Class D	V. Forder  England 1:21.6	No medal	No medal
Female – Backstroke 50 m Class E	Daphne Ceeney  Australia 1:41.8	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia 1:14.4	P. Foulds  England 1;15.3

No medal refers to insufficient competitors.^[1][2]

Weightlifting[]

This event involved a standard supine press. There were four classes: heavyweight (above 12 stone), middleweight (between 10 and 12 stone), lightweight (between 8 and 10 stone) and featherweight (under 8 stone).^[1] Athletes from sports such as table tennis, fencing, throwing events, and swimming decided to enter this event. , an Australian athlete in the heavyweight division, set a new paraplegic world record.^[6]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Class A Heavyweight	Vic Renalson  Australia 340 lbs	John Turich  Australia 280 lbs	J. Rowe  England 215 lbs
Class B Middleweight	T. Palmer  England 250 lbs	Bruce Thwaite  Australia 245 lbs	Chris O'Brien  Australia 220 lbs
Class C Lightweight	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 230 lbs	Gary Hooper  Australia 200 lbs	Roger Cockerill  Australia 195 lbs
Class D Featherweight	Bruno Moretti  Australia 180 lbs	No medal	No medal

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Pentathlon[]

Pentathlon consisted of five events: javelin throw, club throw, shot putt, archery and swimming (50 m crawl).^[3]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Complete Lesions	Dick Thompson  England 3149 points	J. Robertson  Scotland 2090 points	–
Incomplete Lesions	Kevin Cunningham Australia 3212 points	John Turich  Australia 3162 points	L. Manson Bishop  Rhodesia 3135 points

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Fencing[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sabre – Male – Individuals	Frank Ponta  Australia	Alastair Shields  Scotland	Dick Thompson  England
Sabre – Male – Teams	J. Thompson, Dick Thompson  England	Frank Ponta, Ross Sutton  Australia	T. Smart, S . Winters  Wales
Sabre – Females – Individuals	Shelagh Jones  England	Daphne Ceeney  Australia	M. Taylor  Scotland

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Snooker[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	J. Gibson  England	Alan Robertson  Australia	No Medal

Scores: 60–56 ; 51–27^[1][2]

Basketball[]

Basketball had an exciting series of matches and these were played in front of large crowds particularly as the opening and final matches were associated with the series. Several games were played under floodlight. It was noted that the English team used four-wheel chairs and the  Australians three-wheeled sports chairs. The Australian team made up of primarily Western Australians went on to win the gold medal.^[6]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Australia	England	Scotland

Scores: Australia 20 d England 18 ; Australia 36 v Scotland 6 ; England 18 v Scotland 7 ; Australia 24 v England 16; Australia 34 v Scotland 10; England 24 v Scotland 15^[1][2]

The results do not list the athletes in the teams but the programme listed nominated athletes for basketball. There were 5 athletes per team. Australia – Frank Ponta, Roger Cockerill, Kevin Cunningham, John Turich, Bill Mather-Brown, Chris O'Brien, D. Tinsley, , J. Gidney, R. Maxwell England – R. Foster, T. Moran, J. Chilcott, K. Edwards, J. Gibson, Dick Thompson, J. Thompson, T. Palmer, R. Scott Scotland – T. Guthrie, N. Macdonald, J. Robertson, J.G. Robertson, J. Sloway, P. Stanton, J. Whitefield, A. Shields

Table Tennis[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Singles – Male Class A	Dudley Phillips  Wales 21–16 ; 21–3	B. Hunt  Scotland
Singles – Male Class B	Bruno Moretti  Australia 21–17 ; 21–8	Bill Mather-Brown  Australia
Singles – Male Class D	J. Gibson  England 21–14 ; 21–17	Peter McCranor  England
Singles – Female Class A	M. Taylor  Scotland 21–19 ; 21–11	Lorraine Dodd  Australia
Singles – Female Class B	G. Buck  England 14–21 ; 21–16 ; 21–19	A. Masson  England
Singles – Female Class C	Margaret Maughan  England 18–21 ; 21–8 ; 21–13	Daisy Flint  England
Singles – Female Class D	Marion Edwards  England 21–10 ; 21–14	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia
Doubles – Male Class A	K. Edwards, R. Foster  England 19–21; 21–12; 21–17	B. Hunt, T.G. Robertson  Scotland
Doubles – Male Class B	Bruno Moretti, Bill Mather-Brown  Australia 21–18 ; 21–10	John Newton, Frank Ponta
Doubles – Male Class C	J. Robertson, Jimmy Laird  Scotland 21–11 ; 21–16	B. Maxwell, Don Watts Australia
Doubles – Male Class D	J. Gibson, Peter McCranor  England 21–5; 21–7	Roger Cockerill, J. Gidney  Australia
Doubles – Female Open	A. Masson, Marion Edwards  England 21–8 ; 21–11	Lady Susan Masham, Sally Haynes  England

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