Dawn Marie Moncrieffe (born 26 January 1968) is a Canadian female deaf former

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete. She has competed at the

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representing

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in 1985, 1993 and in 2001. She had won a total of 4 medals in her Deaflympic career which spanned from 1985 to 2001. Dawn Moncrieffe was born to a family of African descent on 26 January 1968 in the north of

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. She was born profoundly deaf due to the maternal rubella. Her family then migrated to

and settled in

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. Dawn studied and graduated at the Manitoba School for the Deaf which is located in

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