Angela Walker | |
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Full name | Angela Gaye Walker |
Country represented | New Zealand |
Born | Auckland, New Zealand | 19 March 1967
Spouse |
Kannan Subramaniam (m. 1995) |
Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) (at the 1988 Olympics) |
Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) (at the 1988 Olympics) |
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics |
Level | Senior international |
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Angela Gaye Walker (married name Subramaniam; born 19 March 1967) is a New Zealand writer and former rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal and three bronze medals representing her country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Walker was born in Auckland on 19 March 1967.[1] Her father, Ian Walker, served in the Royal Air Force and Bomber Command during World War II and was a prisoner of war.[2]
Walker competed for New Zealand in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There she tied for 32nd place in the preliminary (qualification) round and did not advance to the final.[1]
She later won a gold and three bronze medals competing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.[3]
In 1995, Walker married Kannan Subramaniam.[2]
Walker has written biographies of her father, published in 2017, and Dame Yvette Williams (2022).[4]
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