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Kerri-Anne Weston (née Connor) (born 3 April 1963)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kerri-Anne Weston )〕 is an Australian swimmer with paraplegia who won five medals at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics. ==Personal== Connor was born on 3 April 1963 in the Atherton Tableland, as the eldest of three children.〔 Her father ran a contract drainage company, which her mother, formerly a teacher, worked for. She lived in Townsville until she was ten, when she moved with her parents to the Gold Coast. She won a gold medal in the under 7's 50 m backstroke.〔 She competed in squash, basketball, and synchronised swimming, and became one of the first Australian women to receive a surf-lifesaving bronze Medallion.〔 On New Year's Eve in 1980, when she was seventeen and had recently graduated high school, she had a bout of transverse myelitis that left her paraplegic.〔〔 A cyst in her spine that she had removed in 1985 caused her to lose some strength in her arms, and later that year, she had two protruding spinal discs removed; the latter operation restored some muscle function in her lower body. She tried learning to walk again after this operation, but severe nerve root pain forced her to abandon this ambition. She has been married to Grant since 1986.〔 The couple have four biological children, three daughters and a son, and an adopted daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerri-Anne Connor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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