Margaret Harriman

Margaret Harriman (1928 to 20 September 2003) was a Paralympic athlete who competed for Rhodesia and later for South Africa. Born in Great Britain, she took part in the netball tournament at the second Stoke Mandeville Games in 1949 under her maiden name, Margaret Webb, and was the only woman in that event. From 1960 to 1976 she competed at the Summer Paralympics in several sports, among them archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls and swimming. She represented Rhodesia at her first two Games and South Africa from 1968, and she won eleven gold medals, eight of them in archery between 1960 and 1968. South Africa was banned from the Games in 1976 because of its apartheid policy, which ended her run for two decades. She returned in lawn bowls at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and won her 17th and last medal there, a bronze. She died of a sudden illness while on holiday in Maine on 20 September 2003.