Sporting Career Daphne Ceeney

1 sporting career

1.1 1960 summer paralympics
1.2 1962 commonwealth paraplegic games
1.3 1964 summer paralympics
1.4 1966 commonwealth paraplegic games
1.5 1968 summer paralympics
1.6 2002 world wheelchair games

sporting career
1960 summer paralympics

ceeney australian female competitor @ inaugural 1960 rome games. @ games, won 2 gold medals in women s 50 m breaststroke complete class 5 , women s 50 m crawl complete class 5 events, 3 silver medals in women s st. nicholas round open in archery, women s club throw c, , women s javelin c events, , bronze medal in women s shot put c event.

1962 commonwealth paraplegic games

she won 11 gold medals @ 1962 commonwealth paraplegic games in perth, western australia.ceeney won 8 gold medals in athletics, archery , swimming.

1964 summer paralympics

at 1964 tokyo games, won gold medal in women s doubles c table tennis event marion o brien, silver medal in women s 50 m freestyle prone complete class 5 event, , 3 bronze medals in women s albion round open in archery, women s 50 m freestyle supine cauda equina, , women s foil individual (wheelchair fencing) events; competed did not win medals in athletics events @ 1964 games.

1966 commonwealth paraplegic games

ceeney won 13 medals including 6 gold medals in swimming fencing, shot put, table tennis , pentathlon @ 1966 commonwealth paraplegic games in jamaica. @ these games, female member of australia s wheelchair basketball team.these games added wheelchair basketball repertoire becoming first female wheelchair basketballer play in men s competition in australia.

1968 summer paralympics

at 1968 tel aviv games, won silver medal in women s 50 m freestyle class 5 (cauda equina) event , 2 bronze medals in women s 60 m wheelchair c , women s pentathlon special class events. retired paralympic competition in 1968.hilton retired paralympic sport total of 14 medals record not passed australian paralympic athlete until 2000.

2002 world wheelchair games

in 1990s, ceeney came out of retirement , took lawn bowls in hope of gaining selection 2000 sydney paralympics. sport taken off program after 1996 atlanta paralympics ceeney went on compete @ 2002 world wheelchair games winning silver in singles , bronze medal in pairsand took place 42 years after first international sporting success. retired lawn bowls in year.