Monica Vaughan
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| Born | 15 April 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic swimming, volleyball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Monica Vaughan (15 April 1952) is a retired British athlete and multiple gold medal-winning paralympic swimmer. She was Britain's most successful Paralympian at the 1976 Games in Toronto, winning five gold medals in swimming and a silver medal as the only woman in the British volleyball team.[3][4] She returned for the 1980 Games in Arhnem, winning a further four gold medals and a silver.[2]
Vaughan had a leg amputated at the age of four and as a teenager she competed against able-bodied athletes for her swimming club, Portsmouth Northsea SC. She worked as a podiatrist before retiring.[3]
References
- ^ "IPC Historical Results Archive - Toronto 1976 - Swimming". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ a b "IPC Historical Results Archive - Arnhem 1980 - Swimming". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ a b c "Monica Vaughan". British Paralympic Association. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- ^ Brittain, I.S. (2012). "From Stoke Mandeville to Stratford: A History of the Summer Paralympic Games" (PDF). p. 128. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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- 1952 births
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