Isabel Barr
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Representing  United Kingdom
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| Paralympic Games | ||
| swimming | ||
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1980 Arnhem | 25 m backstroke |
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1980 Arnhem | 25 m breastroke |
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1980 Arnhem | 25 m freestyle |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 25 m breastsroke |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 25 m butterfly |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 3 x 25 m individual medley |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 100 m freestyle |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 25 m backstroke |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | 25 m freestyle |
| shooting | ||
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | air pistol |
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2000 Sydney | air pistol |
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2004 Athens | air pistol |
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1988 Seoul | air pistol |
| track and field | ||
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1988 Seoul | discus |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | shot put |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville | discus |
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1988 Seoul | shot put |
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1988 Seoul | javelin |
Isabel Newstead, MBE (née Barr; 3 May 1955 – 18 January 2007) was a British paralympic athlete who competed at seven consecutive Paralympic Games from 1980 to 2004. Overall, Newstead won ten gold, four silver and four bronze medals in three different sports. She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.
Isabel Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of nineteen her spinal cord was damaged by a flu virus, which would eventually lead to tetraplegia, partial or complete paralysis of all four limbs. Newstead had already competed at regional level before her illness and as part of her rehabillitation continued swimming. Whilst swimming with the Port Glasgow Otters Swimming Club she was noticed by the British paraplegic swimming team. Newstead moved to Harlow, Essex in the late seventies to work as a systems analyst with Rank Hovis McDougall.
At her first 1980 Summer Paralympics in Arnhem, Newstead won three gold medals in the swimming pool. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville she won three golds and a silver medal in the pool. Most notably, Newstead also won a gold in the air pistol shooting event as well as silver medals in the shot put and discus events.
Newstead did not compete in the swimming events at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul due to health challenges. However, she did win a silver medal in the shot put and two bronzes in the air pistol and javelin events. She married John Newstead after the Seoul games, having previously competed as Isabel Barr.
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