Jane Blackburn

Jane Blackburn is a retired athlete who competed in a number of sports at five Paralympic Games. At the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics she won gold in the table tennis women's doubles 1A-1B with Barbara Anderson, and silver in the archery women's singles 1B and in the mixed St. Nicholas round team event for tetraplegics. She won a gold and a bronze at the 1976 Toronto Paralympics, in the table tennis women's singles 1B and the athletics women's pentathlon 1B. In 1980 at Arnhem she defended her table tennis singles title and also won lawn bowls gold in the women's pairs 1A-1B and silver in the women's singles 1A-1B. In August 2021 she lit the Paralympic Heritage Flame at Stoke Mandeville Stadium with Susie Rodgers.