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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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 AUSRAPID Women's Open champion several times.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sport results and detail". Canberra Times. 13 July 1989. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "Madrid 1992 Paralympic Medallists". paralympicanorak. 14 October 2012. 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 intellectual disability
- 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 for Australia
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Australian Paralympic medalist stubs
- Australian athletics biography stubs
- Australian bowls biography stubs