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Robert Hawkes

Robert Hawkes

  • Class
    1944
  • Induction
    2000
  • Sport(s)
    Football, Men's Track and Field, Men's Swimming

- Football/Swimming/Track, Springfield College

- Member of the United States Paralympic Team; gold medals in 1960, 1964, 1968

- Founder, Maine Paraplegia Association, 1962

- Founder of the wheelchair sports games in Maine, 1962

- Founder, New England Wheelchair Games & Athletic Association

- Served on the first Board of Directors, National Wheelchair Athletic Association

- Past Director and 37 year member of the Board of Directors, United States Wheelchair Sports Fund, Inc.

- Outstanding Male Athlete Award, Bay State Wheelchair Games, 1971

- Inducted, National Wheelchair Athletic Association Hall of Fame, 1971

- Inducted, Maine Sports Hall of Fame, 1971

- Male Sportsmanship Award, Bay State Wheelchair Games, 1973

- Outstanding Master Athlete Award, Orlando Wheelchair Games, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991

- Outstanding Master Athlete Award, Sunshine Wheelchair Games, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993

- Humanitarian Award, Achilles Track Club of New York

- Placed 8th overall, 1993 Jacksonville Marathon

- Placed 11th overall, 1994 Jacksonville Marathon

- Received six gold medals in Master's Division at National Wheelchair Championships

- Distinguished Merit Award, Jacksonville Track Club, 1995

- First Inductee into the New England Wheelchair Athletic Hall of Fame, 1999

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