Kaye Freeman
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Kaye Freeman from Queensland is an Australian athlete and lawn bowler with an intellectual disability. At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap, she won a bronze medal.
Career[]
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Kaye Freeman competing at the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid
At the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability in Härnösand, Sweden, she won three gold medals in Women's 200 m, Women's Javelin and Women's 4 × 100 m Relay and a silver medal in the Women's 100 m.[1] At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with Mental Handicap in Madrid, Spain, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Javelin.[2]
After her athletics career, she took up lawn bowls and has been the Women's Open champion several times.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Sport results and detail". Canberra Times. 13 July 1989. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "Madrid 1992 Paralympic Medallists". paralympicanorak. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
- ^ "Results – Bowls Australian Open" (PDF). AUSPID- e news: 10. April 2014.
Categories:
- Australian female sprinters
- Australian female javelin throwers
- Intellectual Disability category Paralympic competitors
- Athletes from Brisbane
- Australian female bowls players
- Living people
- Competitors in athletics with an intellectual disability
- Sportspeople with intellectual disabilities
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic athletes of Australia
- Australian Paralympic medalist stubs
- Australian athletics biography stubs
- Australian bowls biography stubs