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Karen Farrell
Australian wheelchair basketball player
Karen Farrell (born 24 April 1962) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, who won two silver medals at the Paralympic Games.
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| Born | 24 April 1962 Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She was born in Glasgow, Scotland. [1] Farrell is from Sydney.[2] She became a paraplegic at the age of fifteen, when a car she was a passenger in slid off the road after trying to pass a truck.[2] At the time of the accident, she was not belted into her seat and sustained back, head and neck injuries.[2] Other passengers in the car who were belted in had much less severe injuries.[2] When she is not competing, she works as an Information Technology Consultant.[2]
Farrell is a New South Wales Institute of Sport athlete.[3] She has been a member of the New South Wales women's state basketball team and competed at the national championships.[2] In 2001, she was a scholarship holder at the Australian Institute of Sport.[4] In 2000, she was also sponsored by the Motor Accidents Authority in New South Wales.[5]
National team
Farrell was a member of Australia's national team by 1994. That year and in 1998, she was part of the Australian team that finished third at the Gold Cup tournament.[2] She won two silver medals as part of the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics.[6]
Club basketball
In 2008, Farrell played her club basketball of the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL)'s Hills Hornets.[7] Her team mates included Liesl Tesch,[7] who was on the same team as Farrell when they earned their 2000 and 2004 Paralympic medals.[8]
In 2008, Farrell received a Basketball Australia Merit Award.[9]
- Australian Media Guide : 2000 Paralympic Games. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Committee. 2000.
- "Karen Farrell". New South Wales, Australia: Motor Accidents Authority. 1999. Archived from the original on 8 October 1999. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- "NSWIS Olympic and Paralympic Medallists" (PDF). New South Wales Institute of Sport. 2011. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- Fogarty, Mick (Winter–Spring 2001). "Medal Honour Roll — AIS athletes" (PDF). AIS Alumni (2 ed.). Australian Institute of Sport: 1. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- "Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Success". Parliament of New South Wales. 1 November 2000. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
- "Hornets dominate round 1 WNWBL actio". Australia: Basketball Australia. 8 April 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
- "WorkCover Authority of New South Wales - Liesl Tesch". WorkCover Authority of New South Wales. 30 August 2009. Archived from the original on 28 March 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
- "Basketball Australia Merit Awards" (PDF). Basketball Australia Annual Report (2008 ed.). Australia: Basketball Australia: 47. 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2011.