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Neroli Fairhall ( Christchurch, 26 agosto 1944 – 11 giugno 2006) è stata un' arciera neozelandese, prima sportiva paraplegica a partecipare ai Giochi olimpici . Biografia. Neroli Fairhall iniziò a fare tiro con l'arco dopo essere rimasta paralizzata dalla vita in giù in seguito ad un incidente in moto.
Neroli Susan Fairhall MBE (26 August 1944 – 11 June 2006) was a New Zealand athlete, who was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games . Biography. Born in Christchurch in 1944, Fairhall took up archery following a motorbike accident that paralysed her from the waist down, ending her previous athletic career.
- Neroli Susan Fairhall
- 11 June 2006 (aged 61)
- New Zealand
- 26 August 1944, Christchurch, New Zealand
Athletes. Neroli Fairhall. New Zealand Olympian: 432. Commonwealth. 1. Neroli Fairhall became the first disabled athlete to take part in an Olympic Games when she competed in the women's archery event at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. It was yet another remarkable achievement in a unique career.
4 giorni fa · Neroli Fairhall's athletic career appeared to be finished when she was paralysed from the waist down following a motorbike accident. Undeterred, she took up archery, competing while seated in a wheelchair. In 1984 she earned the right to represent New Zealand at the Los Angeles Games. She finished 35th and gained a place in the record books by ...
8 ore fa · Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) has awarded the PNZ Order of Merit to the late Neroli Fairhall MBE, Paralympian #17, for her outstanding service to PNZ and Paralympic sport in New Zealand. Determined, meticulous and intrepid, Neroli had a legendary international sporting career – moving seamlessly between Paralympic and Olympic Games and making ...
Fairhall passed away in 2006 at the age of 61. She was posthumously inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame during the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Neroli Fairhall was represented by her family who received her ‘numbered’ Paralympic pin as part of The Celebration Project in Wellington in November 2020.
13 giu 2006 · By The Associated Press. June 13, 2006. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, June 12 (AP) Neroli Fairhall, a gold medalist in archery at the 1982 Commonwealth Games and the first wheelchair athlete to...
