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John Cronin is an Irish boccia player. He won a gold medal alongside Margaret Grant at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event.

Career

Cronin began playing boccia in 1996 and won a bronze medal two years later in the 1998 Boccia World Championships. He also earned two silver medals at the 1999 Boccia World Cup.^[1] In the 2000 Summer Paralympics, his first Paralympic Games, Cronin won a gold medal with Margaret Grant in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event.^[2]^[3] In the 2002 World Championships in Portugal, Cronin won two bronze medals.^[1] He later competed in the mixed pairs BC3 boccia event at the 2004 Summer Paralympics but failed to qualify for a medal.^[4] After winning another silver medal at the 2008 Boccia World Cup, Cronin and his partner Steven Valentine won a silver medal at the 2009 Boccia European Championships in Porto, Portugal.^[1]