Joan Elmore is a horseshoes pitcher from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. She is a ten-time horseshoes champion and NHPA Hall of Famer.^[1][2][3]

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Elmore 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]

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