Jane Blackburn

Jane Blackburn

Personal information
Nationality	British
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Paralympic Games Table tennis 1972 Heidelberg Women's doubles 1A-1B 1976 Toronto Women's doubles 1A-1B 1980 Arnhem Women's doubles 1A-1B 1980 New York/Stoke Mandeville Women's doubles 1A-1B 1980 Arnhem Women's Teams 2 Archery 1972 Heidelberg Women's singles 1B 1972 Heidelberg Mixed St. Nicholas round team tetraplegic 1972 Heidelberg Women's St. Nicholas round tetraplegic Lawn bowls 1980 Arnhem Women's Pairs 1A-1B 1980 Arnhem Women's Singles 1A-1B Athletics 1976 Toronto Women's pentathlon 1B

Jane Blackburn is a retired athlete who competed in a number of sports at five Paralympic Games.^[1]

At the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, Blackburn won gold in the table tennis Women's doubles 1A-1B alongside Barbara Anderson, and silver in the Archery women's singles 1B and Mixed St. Nicholas round team tetraplegic, alongside Anderson and Tommy Taylor. She also took bronze in the Women's St. Nicholas round tetraplegic.^[1]

Blackburn won a gold and bronze medal at the 1976 Toronto Paralympics, in the table tennis women's singles 1B and athletics women's pentathlon 1B respectively.^[1]

She again defended her table tennis singles 1B title at the 1980 Arnhem Paralympics, as well as winning lawn bowls gold and silver in the Women's Pairs 1A-1B (with Maggie McLellan) and Women's Singles 1A-1B respectively, plus a further silver in the table tennis, Women's Teams 2.^[1]

Blackburn's final Paralympic medal to date came at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, once again in the Women's singles 1B.^[1]