Teresa "Terri" Hilda Poole, OAM[1] (born 28 January 1964)[2] is an English-born Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist with a vision impairment. She was born in the English city of Manchester.[2] She competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games, where she won two gold medals in the Women's Individual Pursuit Tandem open and the Women's Kilo Tandem open track cycling events, for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia.[1] Her pilot was Sandra Smith. She competed in the Women's 50/60k Tandem open event for road cycling but did not medal.[3]
_(cropped).jpg) Teresa Poole at the 1996 Summer Paralympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Teresa Hilda Poole | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 January 1964 Manchester, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poole received an Australian Sports Medal in 2000.[4] In 2001, she held five world records in tandem cycling.[5] She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1996 and 1997.[6]
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Poole and Smith on their way to one of their two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games
References
edit- ^ a b "Poole, Teresa". It's an Honour. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ a b "Australians at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics: Cyclists". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 20 January 2000. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Athlete Search Results". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Poole, Teresa: Australian Sports Medal". It's an Honour. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ "Survival: the women's team". Sixty Minutes. 11 February 2001. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
- ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002. ISBN 1-74013-060-X.
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