Isabel Newstead, née Barr, lived from 3 May 1955 to 18 January 2007 and was a British Paralympic athlete who competed at seven consecutive Paralympic Games from 1980 to 2004. Overall she won ten gold, four silver and four bronze medals in three different sports, and she was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. Born Isabel Barr in Glasgow, she had a spinal injury at nineteen. At her first Games, in Arnhem in 1980, she won three gold medals in the swimming pool, and she also won a gold in the air pistol shooting event with silver medals in the shot put and discus.
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Isabel Newstead, (née Barr; 3 May 1955 – 18 January 2007) was a British paralympic athlete who competed at seven consecutive Paralympic Games from 1980 to 2004.
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Isabel Newstead, (née Barr; 3 May 1955-18 January 2007) was a British paralympic athlete who competed at seven consecutive Paralympic Games from 1980 to 2004.
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Overall, Newstead won ten gold, four silver and four bronze medals in three different sports.
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