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West Brownlow

American paralympic archer, athlete and sport shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ130379681
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George West Brownlow III (February 27, 1945 – September 11, 2001) was an American paralympic archer, athlete and sport shooter. He competed at the 1976, 1980 and 1984 Summer Paralympics.

Life and career

Brownlow was born in New York, the son of George Sr. and Anita Brownlow. He attended and graduated from Chenango Valley High School. After graduating, he worked as a ski instructor.

Brownlow competed at the 1976 Summer Paralympics, winning the gold and silver medal in archery and athletics. He then competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics, winning two bronze medals in shooting.

Death

Brownlow died on September 11, 2001, at the age of 56.

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“West Brownlow” enters the record as american paralympic archer, athlete and sport shooter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what West, Brownlow and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from West Brownlow” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.