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Full name | Karen Elizabeth Cromie | |||||||||||||||||
Born | 24 September 1979 | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 January 2011 | (aged 31)|||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wheelchair basketball Adaptive rowing | |||||||||||||||||
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Karen Elizabeth Cromie (24 September 1979 – 28 January 2011)[1] was a Northern Irish rower, wheelchair basketball player and Paralympian. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she in came fifth in the mixed double sculls, with James Roberts.[2]
Cromie won silver at the 2005 and 2006 Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball World Cups with the National GB Team.[3] In 2009, she transferred to the National Irish Team.[4]
Karen's sister is a doctor in the United Kingdom, and her brother is a chiropractor in Norway.[3]
Cromie died by suicide on 28 January 2011. She was 31.[1][5][6]