Rosa Crean, born Triandafilia Toprkopul on 22 March 1942, is a British Paralympian who competed in lawn bowls at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal for Great Britain in the women's singles LB7/8 at Atlanta. She was born in the Macedonian mountains of Greece, where her father was imprisoned in Albania while her mother and brother were abducted by communist partisans and taken to Poland, and she grew up separated from her family in an orphanage until she was eight. An ear infection left her partially deaf and visually impaired.
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