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Elizabeth Edmondson
Elizabeth Mary Edmondson〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edmondson, Elizabeth Mary )〕 (born 1 July 1950) is an Australian Paralympic competitor and current Australian Masters competitor in swimming. She became a paraplegic after contracting polio as a small child. She won several medals in the 1964 and 1968 Summer Paralympics. She subsequently retired from swimming, only taking up the sport again in 2006 to compete in the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships in Perth.
==Early life==
Elizabeth Edmondson was born on 1 July 1950 in Perth, Western Australia. On 27 September 1951, at the age of 15 months,〔〔 she was diagnosed with polio. She spent fifteen months in the hospital. Her father made changes to the house to make it easier for her to get around, including the addition of parallel bars to help her learn to walk. She started swimming when she was five years old,〔 at Crawley Baths in the Swan River. The first strokes she learnt to swim were the backstroke, dog paddle and freestyle. She learnt to swim without using her legs. She first placed in a swimming competition during a competition in year one at school, where she finished third in a dog paddle swim.〔
Her first calliper did not allow her to bend her knee.〔 She was excited to received her first calliper that allowed her knee to bend when she was ten years old. Edmondson had other issues with footwear as a youngster. As her feet grew, she outgrew her custom-made footwear. To extend the life of her shoes, the toes were cut out of them to provide more space for her own toes.〔
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