Eric Magennis

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| birth_date =1937/1938

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{{MedalSport |Lawn bowls}}

{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}

{{MedalGold|1972 Heidelberg|Men's Singles}}

{{MedalGold|1976 Toronto|Men's Pairs wh}}

{{MedalGold|1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville|Men's Pairs paraplegic}}

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Eric Magennis (born 1937/1938){{cite news|url=http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news910805_0101_6112|title='Wheels' Magennis just keeps on bowling along|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=6 August 1991|first=Ian|last=Schuback|page=39|accessdate=30 October 2012}} is an Australian Paralympic lawn bowls player and archer. He first represented Australia in lawn bowls at the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Edinburgh, where he won a pairs gold medal . At the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics, he participated in archery and became the first Australian to win a gold medal in the lawn bowls Men's Singles event.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=Magennis&fname=&gender=all|title=Athlete Search Results|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=13 May 2012}} He won two further Paralympic gold medals, one with Bruce Thwaite at the 1976 Toronto Games in the Men's Pairs wh event{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results.php?eclass=wh&sport=lawnbowls&competition=1976PG&gender=m&discipline=&event=Pairs|title=Lawn bowls pairs results for 1976|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=10 August 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024038/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results.php?eclass=wh&sport=lawnbowls&competition=1976PG&gender=m&discipline=&event=Pairs|archivedate=4 March 2016}} and the other with Roy Fowler at the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Games in the Men's Pairs paraplegic event.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results.php?eclass=paraplegic&sport=lawnbowls&competition=1984PG&gender=m&discipline=&event=Pairs|title=Lawn bowls pairs results for 1984|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=10 August 2012}} He retired from international competition in 1986, having won 78 out of the 85 games which he played over his 16-year career.

He also participated in able-bodied competition, notably as part of a team that reached the final of the 1979 New South Wales State Fours Championship. He is affectionately nicknamed "Wheels" in the bowling community. As of 1991, he was working as a lawn bowls coach in the Sydney suburb of Riverstone and throughout New South Wales. He also competed in national championships in archery, weightlifting, table tennis and pistol and rifle shooting.