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Margaret Maughan : ウィキペディア英語版 | Margaret Maughan
Margaret Maughan (born ca. 1928) is a British former competitive archer. She holds the distinction of being Britain's first ever gold medallist at the Paralympic Games.〔 She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium (London) at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.〔 ==Sporting career== Maughan was left paralysed from the waist down and unable to walk by a road accident in Malawi in 1959. She returned to Britain and was treated at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where spinal injury unit founder Dr. Ludwig Guttmann pioneered the use of sport in therapy.〔 There, she took up archery and joined an archery club. The hospital had been the site of the Stoke Mandeville Games, a sports competition for wheelchair athletes which subsequently developed into the Paralympic Games.〔
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