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  2. List of people with paraplegia - Wikipedia

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    Paraplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek (παραπληγίη) "half-stricken".It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neural (brain) elements of the spinal canal.

  3. Category:People with paraplegia - Wikipedia

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    People with paraplegia, a neurologically based impairment in motor and/or sensory function of the body's lower extremities. See also: Category:People with tetraplegia Contents

  4. List of people with quadriplegia - Wikipedia

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    John Callahan (1951–2010) – Cartoonist, became a quadriplegic in an auto accident at age 21 [3] Walter Harris Callow (1896–1958) – inventor of the wheelchair accessible bus. [4] Roy Campanella (1921–1993) – American baseball player. Paralyzed in a 1958 auto accident. [5] John Carter (1815–1850) – English artist [6]

  5. Mallory Weggemann - Wikipedia

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    She became a T10-complete paraplegic after an epidural injection to treat post-shingles back pain in 2008. [4] [5] [6] She broke many world records in the S7 classification, and won multiple gold medals at the IPC Swimming World Championships in 2009 and 2010. [7]

  6. John Maclean (sportsperson) - Wikipedia

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    Maclean was born on 27 May 1966 in the Sydney suburb of Caringbah, [2] as the youngest of three children. [3] His parents had emigrated from Scotland in July 1965. [4] His mother, Avril, had schizophrenia, [5] and he was initially raised in foster homes; Avril's social worker wrote in relation to John that his mother "told sister she didn't mind the other children but can't bear the baby, aged ...

  7. Brian McNicholl - Wikipedia

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    McNicholl was born on 30 December 1951 in Christchurch, New Zealand, [2] and became a paraplegic after contracting polio at the age of eleven months. [3] [4] During school, he was forced to sit in the library while sport lessons were taking place; this fuelled his love for sport. [4] He moved from New Zealand to Australia in 1978. [4]

  8. Rick Hansen - Wikipedia

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    Richard Marvin Hansen CC OBC (born August 26, 1957) is a Canadian track and field athlete (Paralympic Games and Olympic Games), activist, and philanthropist for people with disabilities. When Rick was 15, he was riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fishing trip with his friend, when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over.

  9. Steve Serio - Wikipedia

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    Steven Dillon Serio (born September 8, 1987) is a wheelchair basketball player. As a co-captain of the USA Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, he led the American men to their first Paralympic gold medal since 1988 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games [1] and defended the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. [2]