Daphne Ceeney, later Daphne Hilton, was an Australian Paralympic competitor born in 1934 in the New South Wales town of Harden-Murrumburrah. A riding accident in 1951 left her paraplegic, and she went on to become the only Australian woman at the first Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960 and the first Australian woman to compete at the Games. Across the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Paralympics she won fourteen medals in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming and table tennis, a record for an Australian Paralympian that stood until 2000. She also took part in wheelchair basketball in men's competition, and in later life she returned to competition in lawn bowls, winning silver in the singles and bronze in the pairs at the 2002 World Wheelchair Games. She died in Canberra in 2016 and was inducted into the Australian Paralympic Hall of Fame.
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Ceeney was born in the New South Wales town of Harden-Murrumburrah on 7 January 1934, as the eldest of four children.
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She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
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was an Australian Paralympic competitor.
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She was the first Australian woman to compete at the Paralympic Games.
Plays: Lawn bowls, Sporting career, 2002 World Wheelchair Games
In the 1990s, Ceeney came out of retirement and took up lawn bowls in the hope of gaining selection for the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
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She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
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She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
Plays: Table Tennis, Lead, table tennis
She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
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She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
Competed In: Paralympic Games, Sporting career, 1960 Summer Paralympics
She was selected as Australia's only female athlete at the 1960 Rome Paralympics.
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