![]() 2000 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Bradshaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Joanne Meryl Bradshaw | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 8 November 1961 Yallourn | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanne Meryl Bradshaw, OAM [1] (born 8 November 1961) [2] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in the Victorian town of Yallourn,. [2] [3] She has one daughter, Paige. [2] At the 1998 IPC Athletics World Championships in Birmingham, she won silver medals in the women's shot put and women's discus and a bronze medal in the women's javelin. [2] [3] She won a gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's shot put F37 event, in the process setting a new Paralympic record. [4] She received a Medal of the Order of Australia for her 2000 gold medal. [1] She competed but did not win any medals at the 2004 Athens Games. [5]