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Paralyzed due to a fall in 2005. [22] Curtis Mayfield (1942–1999) – Soul singer/songwriter, paralyzed in a stage accident in 1990. [23] Guy McElroy (1948–1990) – American art historian and curator [24] Elena Mukhina (1960–2006) – Soviet gymnast and 1978 World AA Champion, paralyzed as a result of an under-rotation in a practice ...
In the 1990–91 season, Snow won 68 consecutive matches and 15 straight tournaments, becoming the first International Tennis Federation Wheelchair World Champion. [1] Snow went on to win gold medals in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona for singles and doubles tennis, and at the 1996 Atlanta Games was a member of the bronze medal-winning ...
Brian Sternberg (June 21, 1943 – May 23, 2013) [2] was a world record holder in the men's pole vault who was paralyzed from the neck down after a trampoline accident in 1963. Sternberg set one of his world records on May 25, 1963, in Modesto , California jumping 16 feet 7 inches (5.05 m) using new technology for the sport, a fiberglass pole.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), former president of the United States who, at the age of 39, was partially paralyzed by polio [16] Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician injured in an assassination attempt in 1990 [17] Iyad Shalabi (born 1987), Israeli Paralympic champion wimmer; Liesl Tesch (born 1969), an Australian wheelchair basketball ...
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Amy Deloris Van Dyken-Rouen (born February 15, 1973) is an American former competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, former world record-holder, and national radio sports talk show co-host. She won six Olympic gold medals in her career, four of which she won at the 1996 Summer Olympics , making her the first American woman to accomplish such a ...
The final day of action in Berlin included an emotional tribute to Germany's Kristina Vogel, the reigning Olympic sprint champion paralyzed in an accident in 2018. Cycling: Isolation to elation ...
On 17 March 2007, he set a disability sports world record for the 400 metres (46.56 seconds) at the South African Senior Athletics Championships in Durban; [47] and at the Nedbank Championships for the Physically Disabled held in Johannesburg in April 2007. He became the world record holder of the 100- and 200-metre events with times of 10.91 ...