Jan Randles
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| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 August 1945 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 January 2025 (aged 79) Frankston, Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||
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Janice Margaret Randles OAM (23 August 1945 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian Paralympic athlete who competed in the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics and won two medals - gold and bronze. She was the first female Australian Paralympian to win a Paralympic Games marathon. The next Australian woman to win a Paralympic marathon was Madison de Rozario at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Randles was awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024 for service to Paralympic sports.[2]
Randles was born in Melbourne on 23 August 1945.[3] In 1974 whilst holidaying in Bali, she fell off a motorbike and broke her back.[3] Her working career was in the advertising industry.[3] Randles died at the Frankston Palliative Care Centre, in Frankston, Victoria, on 12 January 2025, at the age of 79.[3]
