Angela Walker | |
Fullname: | Angela Gaye Walker |
Country: | New Zealand |
Birth Date: | 19 March 1967 |
Birth Place: | Auckland, New Zealand |
Height: | 166 cm (at the 1988 Olympics) |
Weight: | 54 kg (at the 1988 Olympics) |
Discipline: | Rhythmic gymnastics |
Level: | Senior international |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Angela Gaye Walker (married name Subramaniam; born 19 March 1967) is a New Zealand writer and former rhythmic gymnast. She won a gold medal and three bronze medals representing her country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Walker was born in Auckland on 19 March 1967. Her father, Ian Walker, served in the Royal Air Force and Bomber Command during World War II and was a prisoner of war.[1]
Walker competed for New Zealand in the rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. There she tied for 32nd place in the preliminary (qualification) round and did not advance to the final.[2]
She later won a gold and three bronze medals competing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.[3]
In 1995, Walker married Kannan Subramaniam.[1]
Walker has written biographies of her father, published in 2017, and Dame Yvette Williams (2022).[4]