Barbara Anderson (athlete)

Barbara Anderson is a British athlete who won five gold medals at the Paralympic Games. A multi-discipline athlete, Anderson found particular success in class 1 swimming events in which she won three of her gold medals. Her other two gold medals came in table tennis both as an individual and with Jane Blackburn in the women's doubles. Anderson won a silver in the Mixed St. Nicholas Round Team tetraplegic archery event alongside Blackburn and Tommy Taylor as well as a silver in the individual event.[1]

Barbara Anderson
Sport
Country United Kingdom
SportParalympic swimming, Archery, Athletics, Table tennis
Medal record
Paralympic Games[1]
Swimming
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Backstroke class 1
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Breaststroke incomplete class 1
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Crawl incomplete class 1
Table Tennis
Gold medal – first place 1960 Rome Women's Singles A
Gold medal – first place 1972 Heidelberg Women's Doubles 1A-1B
Archery
Silver medal – second place 1972 Heidelberg Mixed St. Nicholas Round Team tetraplegic
Silver medal – second place 1972 Heidelberg Women's St. Nicholas Round tetraplegic

Anderson also represented Scotland at the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.[2]

References
  1. Brittain, I.S. (2012). "From Stoke Mandeville to Stratford: A History of the Summer Paralympic Games" (PDF). pp. 62–63, 111–112. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. "Barbara Anderson". National Paralympic Heritage Trust. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 24 April 2023.


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