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Full name | Joanne Meryl Bradshaw | |||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||
Born | 8 November 1961 Yallourn | |||||||||||
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Joanne Meryl Bradshaw, OAM[1] (born 8 November 1961)[2] is a disabled athlete from Australia. She competes in a wheelchair. She was born in the Victorian town of Yallourn.[2] At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham, she won a silver medal in the women's discus and a bronze medal in the women's javelin.[2] She won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's shot put F37 and set a new Paralympic Games record.[3] She competed but did not win any medals at the 2004 Athens Games.[4]