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Sharon Margaret Rackham, OAM (born 25 July 1974) is an Australian Paralympic athlete.


Biography

She was born on 25 July 1974 in Tongatapu, Tonga. She won a gold medal in the T20 200m at the
1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympic Games, Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games ...
in Atlanta, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, and a silver medal in the 200 m T20 at the
2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...
. In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.


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