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Notable swimmers (with their medals) Swimming events under category S1: Swimmers have a significant loss of power or control in legs, arms and hands. Some athletes may also have limited trunk control. This could be caused by tetraplegia, polio or similar disabilities. [3] Swimmers who are in this class use a wheelchair in daily life.
Jessica Long, 29 medals at the Summer Paralympics. This is a list of multiple Paralympic gold medalists, listing people who have won ten or more gold medals at the Paralympic Games. The Paralympics listed for each athlete only include games when they won medals.
Christopher Holmes (6–1–0) Swimming Trischa Zorn (10–0–0) Swimming 1996: winners: table: Atlanta, United States 518 518 517 542 1577 Duane Kale (4–1–1) Swimming Priya Cooper (5–1–1) Swimming 2000: winners: table: Sydney, Australia: 550 550 549 558 1657 Mayumi Narita (6–1–0) Swimming
Pages in category "Paralympic medalists in swimming" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,008 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
She competed at World Championships in 2006 in South Africa, before moving to the Olympic Training Center to swim for Jimi Flowers. Her first Games participation was at the Beijing 2008 Paralympics where she won a bronze medal for 400 m freestyle and the same year became ESPY Award nominee for being the Best Female Athlete with a Disability .
The light-hearted pre-race singing and dancing worked out for Pergolini, who earned the first American gold medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a time of 1:04.93 — just short of her world record ...
Scott earned 17 Paralympic medals (10 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze) in three Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2000 (Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney). [1] seven world records In 1993 and 1996, she was named as the USOC Blind Athlete of the Year. In 2018 Scott was inducted into the US Association of Blind Athletes Hall of Fame.
Paralympic swimmer Már Gunnarsson, who recently competed in Paris, is also a musician, student and advocate for the rights of visually impaired people. Openly gay Paralympian Már Gunnarsson ...