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| Full name | Susan Hobbs | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1956/1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Susan Hobbs (born 1956/1957) is an Australian para-athlete and wheelchair basketball player. Hobbs was the first woman to captain the Australian women's wheelchair basketball team and was inducted into Basketball Australia's Hall of Fame in 2013.
She was from South Australia. In 1976, at the age of 19, a car accident left her a paraplegic. At the 1980 Arnhem Games, she competed in four athletics events and won three silver medals – Women's 60 m 5, Women's 800 m 5 and the Women's 1,500 m 5. She organised the first Australian women's wheelchair basketball team. She was the captain of the women's basketball team at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Basketball Australia established the Sue Hobbs Medallist for the Australian International Women's Wheelchair Player of the Year.
In 1999, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. After the symptoms prevented her from undertaking paid employment, she began volunteering for Multiple Sclerosis Society of SA and the Northern Territory Inc.
References
- "Wheelchair basketball greats be honoured". Paralympic.org.au. Australian Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013.
- ^ "Sue Hobbs". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
- ^ "Our Unsung Heroes International Year of Volunteers; Sue lights up a world of promise". The Advertiser. 2 June 2001.
- Australian Team Members Profile Handbook : Barcelona Paralympics 1992. Sydney: Australian Paralympic Federation. 1992.
- "Crispin & Knowles named Wheelchair Int. Players of the Year". Basketball Australia Website. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
- "2009 South Australia Go for Gold Winners". MegaSwim Website. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
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Categories:- 1950s births
- Living people
- Paralympic athletes for Australia
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Australia
- Australian female wheelchair racers
- Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
- People with paraplegia
- People with multiple sclerosis
- Sportswomen from South Australia
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen