Barbara Anderson (athlete)

Barbara Anderson

Sport
Country	United Kingdom
Sport	Paralympic swimming, Archery, Athletics, Table tennis
Medal record Paralympic Games Swimming 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Backstroke class 1 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Breaststroke incomplete class 1 1960 Rome Women's 25 m Crawl incomplete class 1 Table Tennis 1960 Rome Women's Singles A 1972 Heidelberg Women's Doubles 1A-1B Archery 1972 Heidelberg Mixed St. Nicholas Round Team tetraplegic 1972 Heidelberg Women's St. Nicholas Round tetraplegic

Barbara Anderson is a British athlete who won five gold medals at the Paralympic Games. A multi-discipline athlete, Anderson found particular success in class 1 swimming events in which she won three of her gold medals. Her other two gold medals came in table tennis both as an individual and with Jane Blackburn in the women's doubles. Anderson won a silver in the Mixed St. Nicholas Round Team tetraplegic archery event alongside Blackburn and Tommy Taylor as well as a silver in the individual event.

Anderson also represented Scotland at the 1970 and 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games.