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Joan ElmoreJoan Elmore is a horseshoes pitcher from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. She is a ten-time horseshoes champion and NHPA Hall of Famer.[1][2][3] InformationElmore became interested in horseshoes after hearing about Tennessee state champion horseshoes players, Marlene Ray and Maxine Griffith.[1] She began playing in fall 1996 as a way to bond with her daughter.[1] In her first tournament, she threw ringers at a 60-percent clip. She then won the Tennessee state championship in her rookie year[1] and is the first Tennessean to win the Women's World Horseshoe Tournament.[4] In 2009, she was inducted into the NHPA Hall of Fame.[3][5] She had won five Women's National Horseshoe Pitchers Association World Tournaments by 2012 and had won 10 NHPA World Tournaments by 2021.[6][7] Elmore is also a three-time Women's Indoor Horseshoes Champion (1998-2002) and a twenty-time Tennessee State Women's Champion (1997-2019).[8] She has also won 14 total NHPA World Tournament Preliminary Class and Championships.[9][10] References
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