Isabel Newstead

Isabel Newstead
Medal record
Representing  United Kingdom
Paralympic Games
Women's para swimming
Gold medal – first place 1980 Arnhem 25 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 1980 Arnhem 25 m breastroke
Gold medal – first place 1980 Arnhem 25 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 25 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 25 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 3 x 25 m individual medley
Silver medal – second place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 25 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 1984 Stoke Mandeville 25 m freestyle
Women's shooting para sport
Gold medal – first place 1984 Stoke Mandeville air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Seoul air pistol
Women's para athletics
Gold medal – first place 1988 Seoul discus
Silver medal – second place 1984 Stoke Mandeville shot put
Silver medal – second place 1984 Stoke Mandeville discus
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul shot put
Bronze medal – third place 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.[1] She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.[2]

  1. ^ "Isabel Newstead". The Scotsman. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2013.[dead link]
  2. ^ "Isabel Newstead". Scottish Sports Hall of Fame. 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2013.[dead link]