Hayden Meikle counts down the 150 greatest moments in Otago sport.
Number 112: Trish Hill wins Paralympic gold (1984)
The Oamaru woman was the queen of wheelchair racing in a career that lasted from 1975 to 1988.
She broke seven world records in track events and claimed 36 international medals and marathon trophies, sealing her status as New Zealand's greatest wheelchair racer.
Hill, who had polio and did not take up the sport till she was 26, set three world records in slalom racing, which features ramps and tunnels over a 110m course.
Showing her versatility, she also starred over long (5000m), middle (1500m) and short (200m) distances.
Hill broke the world 200m record in 1979, and smashed the world 5000m record in 1983.
Her crowning glory came in 1984, at the Paralympics jointly hosted by Los Angeles and Stoke Mandeville, the spiritual home of disabled sport.
Hill, competing in England, won gold in the wheelchair slalom, and added silvers in both the marathon and pentathlon.
Hill and husband Dave, a coach and long-serving Paralympic official, live at Waianakarua.
