| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jennifer Symon |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 7 December 1953 South Australia |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
Medal record | |
Jennifer Symon (born 7 December 1953) is a former athletics competitor from South Australia. During the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, she won a silver medal in the javelin throw, [1] and also competed in the high jump event. [2] [3]
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Kurt Harry Fearnley, is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals. He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and was the Australian flag bearer at the closing ceremony.
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