| Rosa Crean | |
| Birth Name: | Triandafilia Toprkopul |
| Birth Date: | 22 March 1942 |
| Birth Place: | Macedonia, Greece |
| Nationality: | British |
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Rosa Crean (born Triandafilia Toprkopul; 22 March 1942) is a British Paralympian. She competed in lawn bowling at the 1996 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal for Great Britain.[1]
Crean was born as Triandafilia Toprkopul in the Macedonian mountains of Greece[2] on 22 March 1942.[3] Growing up, her father was imprisoned in Albania while her mother and brother were abducted by communist partisans and taken to Poland. She was separated from her brother in a separate orphanage and her mother until she was eight. Due to an ear infection, she became partially deaf and visually impaired.[2]
At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, Crean won gold in the lawn bowls women's singles LB7/8.[4]
She made her Commonwealth Games debut at the age of 72 at Glasgow 2014, representing Wales, although she failed to win a medal.