Reuben Ngata
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Nationality | New Zealander | ||||||||||||||
Born | Tikitiki, New Zealand | 31 October 1936||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics Table tennis Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Reuben Ngata (born 31 October 1936) is a former New Zealand Paralympic athlete of Ngati Porou descent. In 1961, he became diagnosed with Polio.[1] In the 1968 Summer Paralympics he competed in athletics. In the 1976 Summer Paralympics he competed in athletics, table tennis and weightlifting, winning a bronze medal in the Weightlifting in men's lightweight.
He would later take up boccia after the Toronto Games.[2]
References
- ^ "Glass half full Reuben". Pacific Homecare. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ "BOCCIA NEW ZEALAND (INC.) Minutes of the Management Committee" (PDF). www.boccia.org.nz. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
External links
Categories:
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for New Zealand
- Living people
- 1936 births
- People from the Gisborne District
- Ngāti Porou
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
- New Zealand sportspeople stubs
- New Zealand Paralympic medalist stubs