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Full name | Sharon Margaret Rackham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 25 July 1974 49) Tongatapu, Tonga | (age||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sharon Margaret Rackham, OAM[1] (born 25 July 1974) is an Australian Paralympic athlete.
Biography
She was born on 25 July 1974 in Tongatapu, Tonga.[2] She won a gold medal in the T20 200m at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia,[1] and a silver medal in the 200 m T20 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics.[3] In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.[4]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sharon Rackham.
- 1 2 "Rackham, Sharon Margaret, OAM". It's an Honour. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
- ↑ Xth Paralympic Games Atlanta U.S.A. August 15-25 1996 : Australia : team handbook. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Federation. 1996.
- ↑ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
- ↑ "Rackham, Sharon: Australian Sports Medal". It's an Honour. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
External links
- Sharon Rackham at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Sharon Rackham at the International Paralympic Committee
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