Bridie Kean

Bridie Kean is an Australian wheelchair basketball player and canoeist. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, and a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. In 2016 she became a vaa world champion.

Kean was bornFebruary 1987. When she was two, her feet were amputated due to meningococcal septicaemia. She is nicknamed Bird because her friend Kate Dunstan in high school thought it was funny that her name sounded like Bird. Then, when she moved to the United States, her friends struggled to pronounce her first name correctly it rhymes with tidy when she was living there. And so, the nickname stuck. Her hometown is Parkdale, Victoria. An award in Keans honour, acknowledging qualities of compassion and bravery, is each year presented to a student at Kilbreda College, where she went to scool. As of 2012, she lives in Alexandra Headland, Queensland.

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