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| Full name | Wayne Henry Broeren | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1933-03-02)2 March 1933 Tiskilwa, Illinois, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 25 March 1991(1991-03-25) (aged 58) Fort Myers, Florida, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Dartchery Wheelchair basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wayne Henry Broeren (2 March 1933 – 26 March 1991) from Champaign, Illinois, was a United States Paralympic athlete. In the 1960 Summer Paralympics, he competed in multiple sports including dartchery and wheelchair basketball.
In the 1960, he was a member of the winning United States wheelchair basketball team and one half of the pair that won the mixed dartchery, along with Jack Whitman.
In 2004 he was posthumously honoured with a letter by his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Personal life
Wayne married Cecil Marie Creath. They had four children: Stuart, Rachel, Timothy and Thomas.
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- Dartchers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- 1933 births
- 1991 deaths
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in dartchery
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American Paralympic medalist stubs
- American basketball biography, 1930s birth stubs