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Full name | Teresa Hilda Poole | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 28 January 1964 Manchester, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track & Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Teresa "Terri" Hilda Poole, OAM [1] (born 28 January 1964) [2] is an English-born Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist with a vision impairment. She was born in the English city of Manchester. [2] She competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she won two gold medals in the Women's Individual Pursuit Tandem open and the Women's Kilo Tandem open track cycling events, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1] Her pilot was Sandra Smith. She competed in the Women's 50/60k Tandem open event for road cycling but did not medal. [3]
Poole received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000. [4] In 2001, she held five world records in tandem cycling. [5] She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1996 and 1997. [6]
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