{{Short description|Australian Paralympic competitor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox sportsperson| | name = Kevin Bawden | image = | imagesize = | caption = | fullname = Kevin Wayne Bawden | nicknames = | nationality = {{AUS}} | club = | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1946}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = | weight = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Shooting }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Paraplegic Games}} {{MedalGold| 1974 Dunedin|Smallbore Rifle}} }}
'''Kevin Wayne Bawden''' AM<ref name=honour>{{cite web|title=Kevin Bawden|url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/|website=It's an Honour|accessdate=1 November 2014|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504050657/http://itsanhonour.gov.au/|url-status=dead}}</ref> (born 1946)<ref name=oral/> is an Australian Paralympics competitor in six sports and a leading disability sports administrator in Australia.
==Personal== Bawden was born in 1946 and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.<ref name=oral>{{cite web| title=Kevin Bawden interviewed by Mick Fogarty in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project|url=http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6414489|website=National Library of Australia|accessdate=1 November 2014}}</ref> He contracted polio at the age of four and at the age of 18 became involved in sport.<ref name=pacific>{{cite web|title=PSG Management Profiles|url=http://www.pacificschoolgames.edu.au/2008/contact/PSGManagementProfiles.html|website=Pacific School Games 2008 website|accessdate=1 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215074104/http://www.pacificschoolgames.edu.au/2008/contact/PSGManagementProfiles.html|archive-date=15 February 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was employed with the Australian Government in several management roles for thirty five years until in 2001.<ref name=pacific/> From 2001 to 2006, he was the chief executive officer of a not-for-profit organisation in Adelaide.<ref name=pacific/>
==Sports career== Bawden participated in four Summer Paralympics, three as an athlete and one as an official and coach.<ref name=pacific/> At the 1968 Tel Aviv Games, he participated in archery, dartchery, lawn bowls, table tennis, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair fencing.<ref name=ipc>{{cite web|title=Kevin Bawden|url=http://www.paralympic.org/results/historical|website=International Paralympic Committee Historical Results Database|accessdate=1 November 2014}}</ref> At these Games, South Australian wheelchair athletes represented Australia for the first time. He participated in shooting, table tennis and wheelchair basketball at the 1976 Toronto Games.<ref name=ipc/> At the 1984 Stoke Mandeville Games, he participated in shooting. He was a wheelchair sports official and assistant basketball coach at the 1988 Seoul Games.<ref name=ipc/> Bawden won a gold medal in the Smallbore Rifle at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, New Zealand.<ref name=pacific/> He participated at the FESPIC Games.<ref name=pacific/>
He represented South Australia at twelve National Championships for wheelchair athletes.<ref name=pacific/>
==Sports administration== At age 19, Bawden established Wheelchair Sports Association of South Australia.<ref name=pacific/> He was President of the Association for 28 years.<ref name=pacific/> He was Chairman of the inaugural National Junior Disability Games.<ref name=pacific/> At these Games, the Kevin Bawden Shield recognised his enormous contribution to junior disability sport. He was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for his contribution to disability sport.<ref name=honour/> Australia's greatest Paralympic shooter, Libby Kosmala states that Bawden played a role in her initial involvement in shooting.<ref>{{cite news|title=What are the Paralympic Games?|work=Sunday Mail (Adelaide|date=17 August 2008}}</ref>
==Recognition== * 1985 – The Lord's Taverners Award – recognition of individuals who make a significant contribution to junior wheelchair sport in Australia<ref name=awards>{{cite web|title=Awards |url=http://www.sports.org.au/events/award |website=Disability Sports Australia |accessdate=1 November 2014 }}{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * 1986 – Sir Ludwig Guttmann Award – recognition of individuals who make significant contribution to wheelchair sport in Australia.<ref name=awards/> *1995 – Order of Australia (AM) – in recognition of service to people with physical disabilities, particularly as President of the Wheelchair Sports Association of SA<ref name=honour/> *2000 – Australian Sports Medal<ref name=honour/> * Two awards are named in honour of Bawden – ''Disability Recreation & Sports SA (formerly Wheelchair Sports SA) Kevin Bawden AM Encouragement Award'' and ''Kevin Bawden Shield'' awarded to the State with the highest average points per athlete the National Junior Games for the Disabled.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hurrell|first1=Bronwyn|title=Top prize to NSW as SA captures Shield|work=The Advertiser (Adelaide)|date=18 April 2003}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Cite interview |last=Kevin |first=Bawden |interviewer=Mick Fogarty |title=Kevin Bawden interviewed by Mick Fogarty in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/188836693 |access-date=1 November 2014 |year=2013}}
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