# Ken Moran

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{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=December 2012}}
{{Infobox sportsperson|
| name = Ken Moran
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| fullname = Kenneth James Moran
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| nationality = {{AUS}}
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| birth_date =27 February 1925
| birth_place = [Beaudesert, Queensland](/source/Beaudesert%2C_Queensland)
| death_date ={{death date and age|df=yes|2009|8|6|1925|2|27}}
| death_place = [Beaudesert, Queensland](/source/Beaudesert%2C_Queensland)
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{{MedalSport|[Lawn bowls](/source/Lawn_bowls)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[Paralympic Games](/source/Paralympic_Games)}}
{{MedalSilver|[1984 New York/<br>Stoke Mandeville](/source/1984_Summer_Paralympics)|Men's Pairs paraplegic}}
{{MedalSport|[Table tennis](/source/Table_tennis)}}
{{MedalCompetition|[Commonwealth Paraplegic Games](/source/Commonwealth_Paraplegic_Games)}}
{{MedalBronze|[1974 Dunedin](/source/1974_Commonwealth_Paraplegic_Games)|?}}
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'''Kenneth "Ken" James Moran''', [MBE](/source/Member_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire) (27 February 1925 – 6 August 2009) was an Australian Paralympic lawn bowler. He  won a silver medal in the Men's Pairs at the [1984 Summer Paralympics](/source/1984_Summer_Paralympics).

==Personal==
Moran was born in the Queensland town of [Beaudesert](/source/Beaudesert%2C_Queensland) on 27 February 1925,<ref name=moran>{{cite journal|title=Vale - Ken Moran|journal=The Marian Clarion|date=September 2009|volume=12|issue=9|pages=5–7}}</ref>  the sixth of eight children of Tom and Johanna Moran.<ref name=moran/>  He  grew up on the family farm during the [Great Depression](/source/Great_Depression), and had a busy and active young life which included farm duties, schooling and playing tennis and cricket.<ref name=moran/>  At age 14, he left school to work full-time on the farm to help support his family during the difficult economic times.<ref name=moran/> While playing a representative cricket match in February 1945, he experienced serious physical symptoms - a sudden but lasting dizziness, loss of balance and inability to focus - that forced him to retire from the match.<ref name=moran/> Within a couple of days, he was diagnosed with [polio](/source/polio) and spent the next two years in a [polio](/source/polio) ward at the [Royal Brisbane Hospital](/source/Royal_Brisbane_Hospital). When he was finally discharged, he spent a year with an uncle in [Brisbane](/source/Brisbane), managing his own rehabilitation and transition to life in a wheelchair before returning to [Beaudesert](/source/Beaudesert%2C_Queensland).<ref name=moran/> He studied accounting by correspondence and worked in the field, and began a lifelong involvement in community work.<ref name=moran/>

==Sport==
Moran took up table tennis and lawn bowls to keep active, playing against and alongside able-bodied players. He won a bronze medal in table tennis at the [1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games](/source/1974_Commonwealth_Paraplegic_Games)  in [Dunedin](/source/Dunedin), New Zealand.<ref name=moran/> He won a silver medal in the men's lawn bowls pairs with [Wayne Lewis](/source/Wayne_Lewis_(bowls)) at the [1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics](/source/1984_Summer_Paralympics).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/moran |title=Moran |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=[International Paralympic Committee](/source/International_Paralympic_Committee) |access-date=10 December 2012}}</ref>

==Recognition==
In the Queen's Birthday Honours 1986 Moran was appointed as a Member of the [Order of the British Empire](/source/Member_of_the_Most_Excellent_Order_of_the_British_Empire)  for ''service to the community and paraplegic sport''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50552 |date=14 June 1986 |page=30 |supp=y}}</ref><ref name=its>{{cite web|title=Kenneth James Moran, MBE|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1086681|work=It's An Honour Website|accessdate=10 December 2012}}</ref>  On 16 September 2010, the Ken Moran Life Centre was officially opened in Beaudesert.<ref>{{cite web|last=Todd|first=June|title=Beaudesert Times Index 26-9-2007 to 4-4-2012|url=http://beaudesertmuseum.org.au/main/images/beaudesert%20museum%20beaudesert%20times%20index.pdf|work=Beaudesert Museum Website|accessdate=10 December 2012|archive-date=9 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409100632/http://beaudesertmuseum.org.au/main/images/beaudesert%20museum%20beaudesert%20times%20index.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IPC athlete|moran|Moran}}

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Category:1925 births
Category:2009 deaths
Category:20th-century Australian sportsmen
Category:Australian male bowls players
Category:Paralympic lawn bowls players for Australia
Category:Paralympic silver medalists for Australia
Category:Paralympic medalists in lawn bowls
Category:Lawn bowls players at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Category:Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
Category:People with paraplegia
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Sportspeople from Brisbane
Category:Sportsmen from Queensland
Category:Sportspeople from Beaudesert, Queensland
Category:Wheelchair-category Paralympic competitors

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