Deanna Coates, known as Di, is an MBE and a sport shooter born on 23 May 1954 who lives in Hampshire and has competed in eight Paralympic Games, winning three gold medals. She began training in 1978 with the Rushmoor Mallards Sports Club in Farnborough, and first represented Great Britain at the Paralympics in 1984, entering four air rifle events and winning two silver medals and a bronze. At Seoul in 1988 she won her first Paralympic gold in the standing event, she won another gold in Barcelona in 1992, and then a gold and a silver in Atlanta in 1996.
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As she competed at the 1984 Games in Stoke Mandeville Coates was also the only member of the 2012 British Olympic/Paralympic team to have previously competed at a home Games.
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Coates started training in 1978, joining the Rushmoor Mallards Sports Club, a club based in Farnborough, and offering a wide range of disabled sport .
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Deanna "Di" Coates MBE (born 23 May 1954) is a sport shooter who has competed in eight Paralympic Games winning three gold medals.
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As she competed at the 1984 Games in Stoke Mandeville Coates was also the only member of the 2012 British Olympic/Paralympic team to have previously competed at a home Games.
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