Honour Roll

 

Medal Winners - Summer Deaflympics

Medal Winners - Winter Deaflympics

Deaf World Record Holders

Sporting Heroes

Medal Winners - Summer Deaflympics

 

1965 - Washington DC, USA

GOLD
Barry Knapman – Men’s Diving

SILVER
Jeff Went – Men’s 200m Backstroke

 

1969 - Belgrade, Yugoslavia

SILVER
Barry Knapman – Men’s Diving

 

1973 - Malmo, Sweden

BRONZE 
John Kemp and Kevin Mitchell – Men’s Doubles (Tennis)

 

1977 - Bucharest, Romania

GOLD
Sharon Gargan – Women’s 400m

BRONZE 
Sharon Gargan – Women’s 100m
Sharon Gargan – Women’s 200m
Pamela Large – Women’s 800m Freestyle
Joanne Warren, Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Pamela Large and Wendy Large - 4 x 100m Medley Relay
Joyce Sellars and Edwina Orr – Women’s Doubles (Tennis)

 

1981 - Cologne, Germany

GOLD
Ross Rawson – Prone Position (Shooting)
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Breaststroke

SILVER
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 400m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Annabel Bishop, Christine Ellison-Smith, Pamela Large– Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay
Christine Ellison-Smith, Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Annabel Bishop and Pamela Large– Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay

BRONZE 
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Freestyle
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 200m Butterfly

 

1985 - Los Angeles, U.S.A.

GOLD
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Individual Medley
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 400m Individual Medley

S ILVER
Glen Moran – 35km Individual Time Trial (Cycling)

BRONZE 
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Women’s Basketball Team (Melissa Anderson; Michelle Barclay; Anne Culpitt; Nicole Davis; Tania Egorov; Helen Jarratt; Kim Kavanagh; Deanne Malden; Dina Maley; Marianne Turcinov.)

 

1989 - Christchurch, New Zealand

GOLD
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 400m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 800m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Individual Medley
Elissa Kranitis, Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Annabel Bishop and Antoinette Harris– Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay
Milton Reedy – Wrestling – 100kg Freestyle                                                                                                                                           Dean Barton-Smith - Men's Decathlon                                                                                                                                                  Dean Barton-Smith - Men's Long Jump

SILVER
Glen Moran – 35km Individual Time Trial (Cycling)
Antoinette Harris – Women’s 50m Freestyle
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 400m Medley

BRONZE 
David Wood – Men’s 400m Hurdles
Antoinette Harris – Women’s 100m Freestyle
Antoinette Harris – Women’s 400m Freestyle
Antoinette Harris – Women’s 200m Butterfly
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Annabel Bishop – Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 50m Freestyle
Elissa Kranitis – Women’s 100m Backstroke
Elissa Kranitis, Annabel Bishop, Antoinette Harris and Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay

 

1993 - Sofia, Bulgaria

GOLD
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Breaststroke                                                                                                                                Dean Barton-Smith - Men's Long Jump

SILVER                                                                                                                                                                                                 Dean Barton Smith - Men's 110m hurdles                                                                                                                                               Dean Barton-Smith - Men's 100m

BRONZE                                                                                                                                                                                                Dean Barton-Smith - Men's 200m

 

1997 - Copenhagen, Denmark

GOLD
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Breaststroke
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 100m Breaststroke
Amanda Hilton, Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Melanie Smith and Rachel Haimes – Women’s 4 x 100m Medley Relay
Joanne Lambert – Women’s 5000m

SILVER
Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick – Women’s 200m Individual Medley
Joanne Lambert – Women’s 1500m

BRONZE
Kelii Williams – Men’s 1500m Freestyle
Amanda Hilton – Women’s 200m Individual Medley
Rachel Haimes, Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick, Amanda Hilton and Melanie Smith – 4 x 100 m Freestyle Relay

 

2001 - Rome, Italy

GOLD
Joanne Lambert – 10,000m
Joanne Lambert – 5,000m
Aleshia Yet Foy – Women’s 800m Freestyle
Aleshia Yet Foy – Women’s 400m Freestyle

SILVER
Aleshia Yet Foy – Women’s 200m Freestyle

BRONZE
Aleshia Yet Foy – Women’s 400m Individual Medley

 

2005 - Melbourne, Australia

GOLD
Amy Mills - Women's Javelin
Reece-Emerson van Beek - 32km Individual Time Trial (Cycling)
Reece-Emerson van Beek - 50km Individual Points Race (Cycling)
Scott Prosser - Men's 100m Butterfly

SILVER
Jarrod Denman - 50km Individual Points Race (Cycling)
Scott Prosser - Men's 400m Freestyle
Scott Prosser - Men's 200m Butterfly
Scott Prosser - Men's 1500m Freestyle                                                                                                                                                      Dean Barton-Smith - Men's Shot Put                                                                                                                                                    Dean Barton-Smith - Men's Javelin

BRONZE
Joanne Lambert - Women's 5000m
Lara Hollow-Williams, Samantha Coates, Lauren Hay & Tracey Micallef-Reid - Women's 4 x 100m Relay
Wendy Devlin & Jina Chapman - Women's Doubles (Tenpin Bowling)

 

Medal Winners - Winter Deaflympics

 

1975 - Lake Placid, U.S.A.

SILVER
Andrew Swan – Men’s Giant Slalom

BRONZE
Andrew Swan – Men’s Slalom

 

1979 - Meribel, France

GOLD
Andrew Swan – Men’s Slalom
Andrew Swan – Men’s Giant Slalom

SILVER
Andrew Swan – Men’s Downhill

 

1983 - Madonna Di Campiglio, Italy

GOLD
Andrew Swan – Men’s Giant Slalom
Andrew Swan – Men’s Super Giant Slalom

SILVER
Andrew Swan – Men’s Downhill

 

1987 - Oslo, Norway

GOLD
Andrew Swan – Men’s Downhill
Andrew Swan – Men’s Giant Slalom

SILVER
Joanne Samuels – Women’s Downhill

 

Deaf World Record Holders

 

Past and current world records will be listed shortly.

Sporting Heroes

Cindy-Lu Fitzpatrick OAM - 'Deaf Queen of the Pool'

Australia's most decorated & talented deaf swimmer known by many as "Deaf Queen of the Pool".

In her six consecutive Deaflympic Games appearances, spanning a 20 year period from 1977 to 1977, Cindy-Lu won 19 Gold, 4 Silver and 5 Bronze Deaflympic medals. She competed in the 100m breathstroke, 200m breathstroke, the 200m indivudual medley and the 400m induvidual medley during her domination of the poolat Deaflympic Games. She also appeared at 2 Commonwealth Games (1982 and 1986) and two Pan-Pacific Championships.

Cindy-Lu has broken Daeflympic World records an unbelieveable twelve times, four of these records still stand today.

In 2002, CISS awarded Cindy-Lu with two of its highest honours, the CISS Medal of Honour and she was recognised as one of the Deaflympians of the Century.

In 2005, Cindy-Lu was named as one of the patrons of the Melbourne 2005 - 20th Deaflympic Games and tourch bearer who lit the flame at the opening ceremony. It was a fitting tribute to an athlete who competed at the highest level of sport and has one of the greatest records at Deaflympics of any athlete.

 

Andrew Swann MBE - 'Deaf King of Skiing'

Australia's most inspired deaf skier with career highlights including:

  • 4 Winter Deaflympics - 1975, 1979, 1983,  1987
  • 6 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Bronze Deaflympics medals
  • First non-european to win Gold
  • Third skier to win two Gold medals in thirty six years of competition
  • Coachd for 14th Winter Deaflympic Games - Davos, Switzerland 1999

 

Joanne Lambert - 'Deaf First Lady of Marathon'

Australia's outstanding long distance deaf runner:

  • 5 Deaflympics - 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005
  • 3 Gold, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze Deaflympic medals
  • Broke 4 Deaf World Athletics Records in 3000m, 5000m and 10,000m - 3 still stand today
  • 2 Gold - 1994 International Deaf Athletics Meet, Berlin - 800m & 1500m
  • Gold - 1998 Victorian Athletics League (Professional) - 10km
  • Gold - 1999 Half Marathon Championships, Adelaide
  • Gold - 1999 Half Marathon Championships, Melbourne

 

Peter Walters - 'Deaf Squash Legend'

A remarkable Australian deaf athlete for longevity and invincibility in squash.

Peter began playing squash in 1968 at the age of 12. He practiced every day and that spurred him onto higher squash levels. He made the State junior Under 19 team where he stayed for three years.

When Squash was introduced in the Australian Deaf Games in Adelaide in 1976/77, Peter won the first Men's Championship. Then in all of his 10 consecutive ADG appearances, spanning a 31 year period to 2008, Peter won a record 10 consequtive championships and incredibly has never been defeated. Peter's other honours include:

  • 1991 SA Deaf Sportsperson of the year
  • 2001 Stan Wickham award (5RPH)
  • 2001 - represented Australia in the first International Deaf Squash Tournament, winning Gold in the individual and team events
  • 2003 - won the team event and finished third in the individual Championships in the 2003 International Deaf Squash Championships
  • 2005 - won the team event and finished second in the individual Championships in the 2005 International Deaf Squash Championships
  • 2007 - won the team event and finished third in the individual Championships in the 2007 International Deaf Squash Championships
  • Awarded life membership of Deaf Sports Recreation South Australia in 2007
  • 2008 Australian Deaf Games - Athlete of the Games
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