Candace Cable, Member of Invacare Corporation's Team Invacare, Wins Olympic Athlete of the Month Award.

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ELYRIA, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2003

Candace Cable, a member of Invacare Corporation's Team Invacare, has been awarded the United States Olympic Committee's February 2003 Athlete of the Month Award.

Cable, a Paralympic Nordic skier from Truckee, Calif., won recognition for her outstanding February performances. She swept three cross country ski distance contests - 2.5 km, 5 km, and 10 km - in the sit-ski division of the Nordic World Championships for the Disabled in Baiersbronn, Germany, held Feb. 7-15. Cable is the first American women, disabled or non-disabled, to stage such a sweep in Nordic World Cup history.

Cable is highly accomplished in alpine and cross-country skiing and in track and road racing, with awards spanning more than two decades. As a skier, she has won silver and bronze medals at World Championships and the Paralympics contests. She has been a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski Team since 1989. In track and road racing, Cable won six Boston Marathon titles throughout the 1980s and won Olympic medals in 1984 and 1988.

A 1997 inductee into the Wheelchair Sports Hall of Fame, Cable focuses much of her time today on instructional workshops and motivational speaking. She was invited to be the U.S. flag bearer for the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Paralympic Games, and she was a torch carrier for the 1996 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In 2000, she was a core rider for Girls on the Move, a 10-week cross-country bicycle ride that stopped in 1,500 communities to conduct and facilitate workshops, training, and seminars on healthy emotional and physical development of girls and women.

Invacare Corporation (NYSE:IVC) is the global leader in the manufacture and distribution of innovative home medical products which promote recovery and active lifestyles through more than 25,000 providers. The company, which had 2002 revenues of $1.09 billion, goes to market in the following channels of distribution: home care, mass retail and institutional. Within these channels of distribution, Invacare participates in the following product segments: Home Care, which includes rehab products, respiratory products, manual wheelchairs, home care beds, therapeutic support surfaces and personal care products marketed by Invacare's Home Care Group; Soft Goods and Supplies, which includes ostomy, incontinence, wound care and diabetic supplies marketed by Invacare Supply Group; and Institutional, which includes nursing home beds, patient lifts and slings, nursing home furniture and bathing systems marketed by Invacare Continuing Care Group. The company's headquarters are in Elyria, Ohio, and the firm has manufacturing plants in the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. For more information about the company, visit Invacare's website at www.invacare.com.

Invacare Corporation's Team Invacare sponsors approximately 75 wheelchair athletes and teams, including wheelchair tennis, basketball (the Cleveland Cavaliers wheelchair team and individuals as well as Dallas Mavericks), quad rugby teams, and individual track and racing athletes.