Hilda Binns

Hilda May Binns was a Canadian Paralympic athlete who competed in athletics and swimming events.

Biography

Binns was born in Hamilton, Ontario In 1945 and contracted polio in 1955. Her father built her an exercise bike to help her rehabilitation.
Binns won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, held in Tel Aviv.
She was a founder of Steel City Wheelers, and involved with the Hamilton Post Polio Association and the Hamilton Handicapped Club.
Hilda May Torok married fellow polio survivor and athlete David Binns by 1973.

Honors

She was inducted into the Hamilton Gallery of Distinction in 2018, and into the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. On 14 May 2021, Jovian asteroid 28958 Binns, discovered by astronomers with the LINEAR program in 2001, was.