Monica Vaughan (15 April 1952) is a retired British athlete and multiple gold medal-winning paralympic swimmer. She was Britain's most successful Paralympian at the 1976 Games in Toronto, winning five gold medals in swimming and a silver medal as the only woman in the British volleyball team. She returned for the 1980 Games in Arhnem, winning a further four gold medals and a silver.

Vaughan had a leg amputated at the age of four and as a teenager she competed against able-bodied athletes for her swimming club, Portsmouth Northsea SC. She worked as a podiatrist before retiring.

Monica Vaughan

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1952 births

Living people

British female freestyle swimmers

Paralympic swimmers for Great Britain

Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain

Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain

Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Paralympics

Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Paralympics

Volleyball players at the 1976 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 1980 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic medalists in swimming

Paralympic medalists in volleyball

British female backstroke swimmers

20th-century British women

Monica Vaughan