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Margaret Harriman is a Paralympic athlete from South Africa. She was born in Great Britain. She was the only lady to compete in the netball tournament of the second
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in 1949 under her maiden name of Margaret Webb. From
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
to
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
she competed in the Summer Paralympics in many sports, including archery, athletics,
dartchery Dartchery (a combination of darts and archery which uses a dart board instead of a standard archery target) was contested at the Summer Paralympic Games from 1960 to 1980. Competitions were carried out in pairs: mixed pairs from 1960 to 1980, and ...
, lawn bowls and swimming. She represented Rhodesia in her first two Paralympics and then South Africa since 1968, winning eleven gold medals. Between 1960 and 1968 she won an impressive eight gold medals in archery. In 1976 she became ineligible to compete after South Africa was banned from the games because of its policy on apartheid. She made a long-awaited return to the competition at the
1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympic Games, Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games ...
in Lawn Bowls after the fall of apartheid which led to the lifting of the ban on South African competitors. In this edition she won her 17th and last medal, a bronze.


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Paralympic gold medalists for Rhodesia Archers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Archers at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Dartchers at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Dartchers at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Lawn bowls players at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Lawn bowls players at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Lawn bowls players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for South Africa Living people South African female archers Rhodesian female archers Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in archery Paralympic medalists in lawn bowls Paralympic medalists in swimming Paralympic medalists in dartchery Paralympic swimmers of Rhodesia Dartchers at the 1964 Summer Paralympics {{SouthAfrica-swimming-bio-stub