Margaret Harriman

Margaret Harriman

Close-up of Harriman at Rome 1960
Personal information
Birth name	Margaret Webb
Nationality	Rhodesia South Africa
Born	Great Britain
Medal record Paralympic Games Representing Rhodesia Archery 1960 Rome Women's Windsor Round Open 1960 Rome Women's FITA Round Open 1964 Tokyo Women's Albion Round Open 1964 Tokyo Women's FITA Round Open Dartchery 1964 Tokyo Mixed Pairs Open Swimming 1960 Rome Women's 50 m Crawl Incomplete class 4 1960 Rome Women's 50 m Backstroke Incomplete class 4 1960 Rome Women's 50 m Breaststroke Incomplete class 4 Representing South Africa Archery 1968 Tel Aviv Women's Albion Round Open 1968 Tel Aviv Women's FITA Round Open 1972 Heidelberg Women's FITA Round Open Dartchery 1976 Toronto Women's Pairs Open Lawn Bowls 1972 Heidelberg Women's singles 1972 Heidelberg Women's pairs 1976 Toronto Women's singles Wh 1976 Toronto Women's pairs Wh 1996 Atlanta Women's singles LB2

Margaret Harriman is a Paralympic athlete from South Africa. She was born in Great Britain.

She was the only lady to compete in the netball tournament of the second Stoke Mandeville Games in 1949 under her maiden name of Margaret Webb. From 1960 to 1976 she competed in the Summer Paralympics in many sports, including archery, athletics, dartchery, lawn bowls and swimming. She represented Rhodesia in her first two Paralympics and then South Africa since 1968, winning eleven gold medals.

Between 1960 and 1968 she won an impressive eight gold medals in archery.

In 1976 she became ineligible to compete after South Africa was banned from the games because of its policy on apartheid.

She made a long-awaited return to the competition at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Lawn Bowls after the fall of apartheid which led to the lifting of the ban on South African competitors. In this edition she won her 17th and last medal, a bronze.