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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.
There is at present only one athlete who has won a medal at the Olympics prior to becoming disabled, and has then gone on to win medals at the Paralympics. Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres won a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics , then was disabled in a bus accident, and went on to win three gold medals and three bronze in wheelchair ...
Kinghorn represented Team GB at the 2014 IPC European Championships in Swansea where she won Britain's first gold medal in the T53 Women's 400m [9] and went on to win further golds over 100m and 800m. [10] Kinghorn competed for Team GB at 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Here are some of the best images from Day 9 of the Olympic Games, from the track to an Eiffel Tower sunset to some of the best in the world celebrating Olympic gold with their families.
Medal Host Number of medal events Medals awarded Athlete(s) with the most medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze) Gold Silver Bronze Total 1960: winners: table: Rome, Italy: 113 113 94 84 291 Maria Scutti (9–1–2) Athletics 1964: winners: table: Tokyo, Japan: 144 144 138 136 418 Dean Slaugh (4–0–0) Archery Serge Bec (3–1–0) Wheelchair Fencing
Gold medalist Simone Biles celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the artistic gymnastics women's vault final on Day 8 of the Olympic Games at Bercy Arena on Aug. 3, 2024, in Paris.
McFadden was born in Leningrad, then Soviet Union, on April 21, 1989.She was born with spina bifida, a congenital disorder that paralyzed her from the waist down. After her birth mother abandoned her in an orphanage that was too poor to afford a wheelchair for her, she walked on her hands for the first six years of her life.
Aly Raisman is opening up about her health struggles. On the latest episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the 30-year-old Olympic gymnast detailed the two times she was hospitalized after having ...