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Ride On Barbara Warren

August 30, 2008 urngarden.com

Picture courtesy of the Warren Family archives
Picture courtesy of the Warren Family archives

Barbara Warren, one of the world’s elite endurance athletes in her age group has died after breaking her neck in a bike crash at the Santa Barbara Triathlon. She was 65.

Warren crashed her bike on a downhill road about halfway through the 34-mile cycling section of the race on Saturday.

Warren was paralyzed from the neck down and was breathing with the aid of the ventilator.

Drake said her sister told the family by blinking and nodding that she wanted to die.

“I talked to her and she nodded over and over and over again. She wanted to leave,” Drake said. “No athlete would like to have a life with only their eyes talking.”

Warren won her age group in the 2003 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii. She competed in the race, the world’s top triathlon, 13 times and finished in the top five in her age group eight times.

Remarkable!

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Filed Under: obituaries, Sports Tagged With: Barbara Warren, obituaries, Triathon World Championship

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  1. jerry cram says

    September 2, 2008 at 7:00 PM

    To the family Barbara Warren. It is of great saddness I read of the death of Barbara. I did not know Barbara but as a fellow triathlete I feel like we lost one of our family. We also lost a son and can feel the pain that your family is going through. Remember all the good times. god bless. jerry

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