Paralympic Games 2016: Friendship drives Monique Murphy from coma to Rio

By Stathi Paxinos
Updated June 26 2016 - 4:18pm, first published 3:53pm
Paralympic swimmer Monique Murphy (right) with teammate Ashleigh McConnell Photo: Daniel Pockett
Paralympic swimmer Monique Murphy (right) with teammate Ashleigh McConnell Photo: Daniel Pockett

When Monique Murphy awoke from a week-long coma in 2014, she was facing a vastly different life. Murphy had been at a university party when she fell from a fifth floor balcony and landed on a glass roof.

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