Lyn Lepore

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| birth_place = Geraldton, Western Australia

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Lynette Lepore, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|OAM}}{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886931|title=Lepore, Lynette|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=19 January 2012}} (9 October 1961 – 8 January 2025) was an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist who won three medals at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics including a gold medal.

Paralympic Games

File:261000 - Cycling road Lynette Nixon Lyn Lepore action 2 - 3b - 2000 Sydney race photo.jpg during the 2000 Summer Paralympics Women's Tandem Open road race]]

In 1994, Lepore competed at the IPC World Cycling Championships in Belgium with her tandem partner Tim Harris and they won the Mixed Individual 3000 m Track Pursuit. She competed at the 1996 Atlanta Games with her partner Paul Lamond but did not win any medals at those games.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=Lepore&fname=Lyn&gender=all|title=Athlete Search Results|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=19 January 2012}} In 1998, with Paul Lamond she competed at the World Disabled Cycling Championships in Colorado Springs in track and road events but they did not medal.

At the 2000 Sydney Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's Tandem open event for which she received a Medal of the Order of Australia, a silver medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial Tandem open event and a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit Open event, with her pilot Lynette Nixon.{{cite web|title=Athlete Search Results: Australia|url=http://www.paralympic.org/Sport/Results/search.html?npc=AUS&gender=all&medal=medals&sport=all&games=2000PG|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=25 January 2011}} In 2000, she received an Australian Sports Medal.{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/974553|title=Lepore, Lyn: Australian Sports Medal|publisher=It's an Honour|accessdate=19 January 2012}}

Lepore appealed against Kieran Modra's placement in the Australian Paralympic cycling team at the 2004 Athens Games, in a case that was successful at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Leading up to the games, Modra was piloted by David Short and Robert Crowe for sprint and endurance events, respectively. The appeal was on the grounds that Lepore deserved her place in the team because when each of Modra's pilot–rider combinations was counted separately, she had a higher rank than Modra.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/19/1095532178309.html?from=storylhs|title=Modra battles his way to cycling gold|publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 September 2004|accessdate=19 January 2012}} The day before the opening ceremony, the Australian Paralympic Committee successfully appealed to the International Paralympic Committee to give Modra an extra place in the team.{{cite web|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2004/sep04/paralympics04/?id=paralympics042|title=12th Paralympic Games: Day 2|publisher=Cyclingnews.com|date=19 September 2004|accessdate=19 January 2012}} Lepore did not win any medals with her tandem pilot Jenny Macpherson at the 2004 Games due to a crash on their opening event leaving them both injured.

Transplant Games

In 2018, Lepore competed in the Australian Transplant Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland. In 2019, she competed in that year's World Transplant Games in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.In 2023, at the age of 61, she competed in three sporting events at the World Transplant Games in Perth, Western Australia and won a silver medal in her division in tenpin bowling.

Personal life

Lepore was born on 9 October 1961 in Geraldton, Western Australia.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000120000000/http:/www.ausport.gov.au/olym96/paracycl.html |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/olym96/paracycl.html |archivedate=20 January 2000|title=Australians at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics: Cyclists|publisher=Australian Sports Commission}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Chris |date=13 January 2025 |title=Vale Lyn Lepore |url=https://transplant.org.au/vale-lyn-lepore/ |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=Transplant Australia |language=en-AU}} She and her two sisters were born with inherited retinal dystrophy, which involves having tunnel vision, night blindness and kidney disease.{{Cite web |date=9 May 2018 |title=Run for a Reason Lyn Lepore |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/eastern-reporter/three-time-paralympian-lyn-lepore-to-run-for-a-reason-to-find-cure-for-retinal-diseases-c-848863 |access-date=13 January 2025 |website=Community News |language=en}}In 1997, she was diagnosed with kidney disease and managed the condition for 18 years before she was forced onto dialysis.{{Cite news |date=19 April 2023 |title=She won gold for Australia in Sydney. Now, after a kidney transplant, Lynette is back in green and gold |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-20/lynette-lepore-competes-in-world-transplant-games/102243314 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}} Her nephew Adam Reeves donated one of his kidneys to her in 2016.

She trained and worked as a remedial massage therapist. In 2016, Lepore graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science (Honours). She was married to Paul Lamond.

Lepore was diagnosed with cancer in September 2024, and died at Glengarry Hospice, Perth, Western Australia on 8 January 2025, at the age of 63.{{Cite web |title=Obituaries - Lyn Lepore |url=https://www.westannouncements.com.au/browse/obituaries/view/lepore-lyn |date=13 January 2024|access-date=13 January 2025 |website=West Australian}}