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Adele Jackson is an Australian Paralympic lawn bowler. At the 1976 Toronto Games, she competed in two events and won a gold medal in the Women's Pairs B with Charmaine Smith. [1]
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Adele Jackson is an Australian Paralympic lawn bowler. At the 1976 Toronto Games, she competed in two events and won a gold medal in the Women's Pairs B with Charmaine Smith. [1]
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Ethiopia's participation in the Paralympic Games has been sporadic. The country made its Paralympic début at the 1968 Summer Games in Tel Aviv, sending two competitors who both competed in both athletics and table tennis. Ethiopia was then absent from the Games for almost a decade, returning in 1976 with a one-man delegation Abraham Habte, who entered athletics, lawn bowls and table tennis. In 1980, Habte was again Ethiopia's only representative, this time competing only in lawn bowls. Ethiopia then entered a prolonged period of absence, before sending a single runner to the 2004 Games. In 2008, the country entered a two-man delegation in athletics. In 2012, Wondiye Fikre Indelbu became the first Ethiopian to win a medal in the Paralympic Games, winning a silver in the men's 1500 meters - T46 event in athletics.
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