Beverly Stanger facts for kids

Beverly Stanger was an amazing athlete from Canada. She was a blind Indigenous track and field star from the Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec. Beverly competed in big events like the 1976 Toronto Olympics for athletes with disabilities. She also took part in the 1977 Ontario Summer games. In 1976, Beverly received a special honor called the Tom Longboat Award. She was only the second woman and the first athlete with a disability to win it!

About Beverly

Beverly Stanger was part of the Abenaki Algonquin people. She grew up with the Timiskaming First Nation in Quebec. Later, she lived in a town called Schumacher in Ontario. In 1977, Beverly went to the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind. While there, she showed off her talents in track and field sports.

Her Amazing Sports Achievements

Beverly Stanger competed in the 1976 Toronto Olympics for athletes with disabilities. She won a gold medal in the high jump event! She also earned two silver medals in the discus throw and the pentathlon. The pentathlon is a competition with five different sports.

The next year, in 1977, Beverly joined the Ontario Summer games in Brantford, Ontario. She competed in many track and field events. She won another gold medal and four more silver medals!

Awards and Honors

In 1976, Beverly Stanger was given the national Tom Longboat Award. She shared this award with another athlete named Reginald Underwood. Beverly was the second woman ever to receive this important national award.