Karen Cromie
# Karen Cromie

Karen Elizabeth Cromie (24 September 1979 – 28 January 2011) was a Northern Irish rower, wheelchair basketball player and Paralympian. She competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, where she in came fifth in the mixed double sculls, with James Roberts.

## Career

Cromie won silver at the 2005 and 2006 Paralympic Wheelchair Basketball World Cups with the National GB Team. In 2009, she transferred to the National Irish Team.

## Family

Karen's sister is a doctor in the United Kingdom, and her brother is a chiropractor in Norway.

## Death

Cromie died by suicide on 28 January 2011. She was 31.

