Lyn Lepore
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AustraliaGeraldton, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
 Lepore at the 2000 Summer Paralympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lynette Lepore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 October 1961 Geraldton, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 January 2025 (aged 63) Perth, Western Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lynette Lepore, OAM[1] (9 October 1961 – 8 January 2025) was an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist who won three medals at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics including a gold medal.[2]
In 1994, Lepore competed at the IPC World Cycling Championships in Belgium with her tandem partner Tim Harris and they won the Mixed Individual 3000 m Track Pursuit.[3] She competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games with her partner Paul Lamond but did not win any medals at those games.[4] In 1998, with Paul Lamond she competed at the World Disabled Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs in track and road events but they did not medal.[3]
At the 2000 Sydney Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's Tandem open event for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia,[1] a silver medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event and a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit Open event, with her pilot Lynette Nixon.[5] In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.[6]
Lepore appealed against Kieran Modra's placement in the Australian Paralympic cycling team at the 2004 Athens Games, in a case that was successful at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Leading up to the games, Modra was piloted by David Short and Robert Crowe for sprint and endurance events, respectively. The appeal was on the grounds that Lepore deserved her place in the team because when each of Modra's pilot–rider combinations was counted separately, she had a higher rank than Modra.[7] The day before the opening ceremony, the Australian Paralympic Committee successfully appealed to the International Paralympic Committee to give Modra an extra place in the team.[8] Lepore did not win any medals with her tandem pilot Jenny Macpherson at the 2004 Games due to a crash on their opening event leaving them both injured.[4][3]