Wayne Henry Broeren (2 March 1933 – 26 March 1991) from

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, was a

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Paralympic athlete. In the

1960 Summer Paralympics The 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, retroactively designated as the 1960 Summer Paralympics ( it, Giochi paralimpici estivi del 1960),

, he competed in multiple sports including dartchery and

wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...

. In the

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 ...

, he was a member of the winning United States wheelchair basketball team and one half of the pair that won the mixed dartchery, along with

Jack Whitman Jack Whitman (died September 30, 2004) was an American paralympic archer and dartcher. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Paralympics, Biography Whitman was raised on a farm in Galesburg, Illinois. He attended Galesburg High School, whe ...

. In 2004 he was posthumously honoured with a letter by his alma mater, the

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Personal life

Wayne married Cecil Marie Creath. They had four children: Stuart, Rachel, Timothy and Thomas.

References

Dartchers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States 1933 births 1991 deaths Medalists at the 1960 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States Paralympic medalists in dartchery {{1930s-US-basketball-bio-stub