Deahnne McIntyre

Deahnne Mary McIntyre, OAM (born 9 June 1971) is an Australian former Paralympic athletics competitor and one of few Australian female powerlifters. She won four medals in the 1988 Seoul Paralympic Games in athletics, and competed in powerlifting from 2000 until her retirement from the sport in January 2011. She was the first person to win a gold medal for the Australian Capital Territory at the Pacific School Games, in which she participated in 1984 and 1988. At the age of 14, she won 16 medals (including nine gold) at the third Australian Junior Wheelchair Games in 1985 in events such as wheelchair racing, javelin, discus, table tennis and swimming. In 1990, she was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholarship holder. She competed at the World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands winning a bronze medal in Women's 100m T1 and fourth in Women's 400m T4.

After briefly competing in lawn bowls, she took up powerlifting shortly before the 2000 Sydney Games, the first Paralympics where women were allowed to compete in the sport. She was coached by Ray Epstein, and was one of few Australian female powerlifters. In the same year, she won a silver medal at the 2010 IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Kuala Lumpur and came fifth in the Women's Open Bench Press event at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. She retired from powerlifting in January 2011.