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10 Facts About Lyn Lepore

1.

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.

2.

Lyn Lepore competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games with her partner Paul Lamond but did not win any medals at those games.

3.

Lyn 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.

4.

Lyn 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.

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In 2018, Lyn Lepore competed in the Australian Transplant Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland.

6.

Lyn Lepore was born on 9 October 1961 in Geraldton, Western Australia.

7.

Lyn Lepore and her two sisters were born with inherited retinal dystrophy, which involves having tunnel vision, night blindness and kidney disease.

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8.

Lyn Lepore trained and worked as a remedial massage therapist.

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In 2016, Lyn Lepore graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science.

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Lyn Lepore was diagnosed with cancer in September 2024, and died at Glengarry Hospice, Perth, Western Australia on 8 January 2025, at the age of 63.