Wayne Broeren

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Wayne Broeren
Personal information
Full nameWayne Henry Broeren
NationalityAmerican
Born(1933-03-02)2 March 1933
Tiskilwa, Illinois, United States
Died25 March 1991(1991-03-25) (aged 58)
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
Sport
SportDartchery
Wheelchair basketball

Wayne Henry Broeren (2 March 1933 – 26 March 1991) from Champaign, Illinois, was a United States Paralympic athlete. In the 1960 Summer Paralympics, he competed in multiple sports including dartchery and wheelchair basketball.

In the 1960, he was a member of the winning United States wheelchair basketball team and one half of the pair that won the mixed dartchery, along with .

In 2004 he was posthumously honoured with a letter by his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1]

FAMILY

Wayne married Cecil Marie Creath. They had four children, Stuart, Rachel, Timothy and Thomas.

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