Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer Ellen Johnson (née Brown, born October 25, 1948) is a former wheelchair basketball player and a para table tennis player. She developed polio at the age of five in Jamaica. She has represented Jamaica at the Paralympics from 1968 to 1980 and then represented the United States at the Paralympics from 1984 to 2004. She was married to Denton Johnson before his death.

Sporting career Johnson first started playing ball sports in her teens, she was introduced to a lot of sports and was interested in table tennis. She participated for home nation Jamaica at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, Germany and won a silver medal in wheelchair basketball. Johnson's family immigrated to the United States after the 1972 Summer Paralympics, she joined the Paralympic table tennis team in 1983 and one year later won two silver medals in the 1984 Summer Paralympics along with Pamela Fontaine.