Jan Randles

Janice Margaret Randles (23 August 1945 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian Paralympic athlete who competed in the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics and won two medals - gold and bronze. She was the first female Australian Paralympian to win a Paralympic Games marathon. The next Australian woman to win a Paralympic marathon was Madison de Rozario at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Randles was awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024 for service to Paralympic sports.

Background Randles was born in Melbourne on 23 August 1945. In 1974 whilst holidaying in Bali, she fell off a motorbike and broke her back. She won two medals: a gold medal in the Women's Marathon 4 event and a bronze in the Women's 5000 m 4 event. and she is featured in a video published in 2012 to mark the 50th anniversary of Disability Sport and Recreation.