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Born | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | 20 October 1945||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | August 4, 2022 | (aged 76)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hilda May Binns ( née Torok, later Longmate ; October 20, 1945–August 4, 2022 [1]) was a Canadian Paralympic athlete who competed in athletics and swimming events. [2] [3]
Binns was born in Hamilton, Ontario In 1945 and contracted polio in 1955. [4] Her father built her an exercise bike to help her rehabilitation. [5]
Binns won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv. [6]
She was a founder of Steel City Wheelers, and involved with the Hamilton Post Polio Association and the Hamilton Handicapped Club. [7]
Hilda May Torok married fellow polio survivor and athlete David Binns by 1973. [5]
She was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction in 2018, [7] and into the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. [8] On 14 May 2021, Jovian asteroid 28958 Binns, discovered by astronomers with the LINEAR program in 2001, was named in her honor. [9]