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Dame Sarah Joanne Storey (née Bailey; born 26 October 1977) is a British cyclist and swimmer, a multiple gold medallist in the Paralympic Games, and six times British (able-bodied) national track champion (2 × Pursuit, 1 × Points, 3 × Team Pursuit).
Sarah Storey says every race is different. The British cycling star won the women’s C4-5 road race for the fourth time straight for her 19th gold medal at a Paralympic Games. The experienced ...
British cycling star Sarah Storey claimed her 19th gold medal at a Paralympic Games by winning the women’s C4-5 road race on Friday.. The 46-year-old Storey finished just ahead of French ...
Sarah Reinertsen (born 22 May 1975) is an American Paralympic triathlete and former track athlete. She was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency , a bone-growth disorder; her affected leg was amputated above the knee at age seven.
He competed at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games and won three gold medals and a bronze. Storey who grew up in Corfe Mullen and attended Corfe Hills School has had Type 1 diabetes since the age of four. [2] At the 2004 Summer Paralympics he participated in two tandem track cycling events, acting as the sighted pilot for Daniel Adam Gordon.
The 100 metres sprint has been one of original track events in the Summer Paralympics since 1968. The first track events were for male wheelchair competitors only (female wheelchair competitors took part in 60m sprints in that year, they took part in the 100m sprint in 1976). Able-bodied athletes took part in track events in 1976.
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[5] [6] At the games, she became the first American woman to score in Paralympic wheelchair rugby, [7] [8] and the U.S. Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby Team, including her, won the silver medal. [9] As of those Paralympics, Adam is a 2.5-classified player in the wheelchair rugby classification system.