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Sammi is the fastest ever female British wheelchair racer regardless of classification over 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m. Samantha Kinghorn at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, T53 100 metres sprint, where she finished fifth. Kinghorn's first race was the 2012 London Mini Marathon, where she came second. [4]
In 2010, Rachelle Friedman Chapman was 24 years old when she got into an accident on the evening of her bachelorette party. The accident left her paralyzed from the chest down.Five years later ...
Dawes shown waiting at the 100 m semi final wheelchair race, 2000 Summer Paralympics. Cheri Beccera (USA) is seen in the foreground. Photo of Dawes at City2Surf 2011, where she was the winner of the women's Wheelchair Division. In 1996, Dawes competed in the Atlanta Paralympics, [4] where she was awarded the 1996 Young Paralympian of the Year ...
Susannah Scaroni (born May 16, 1991) is an American Paralympic athlete. [1] She won the gold medal in the women's 5000 meters T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan and the silver in the same event in Paris, 2024.
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.
Barreto became a paraplegic in 2009 after a motorcycle accident. [1] [2] Personal life
2014: Named Para-Swimming Female Athlete of the Year by swimming news website SwimSwam [16] 2015: Four gold medals (100m butterfly, 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, 400m freestyle); three silver medals (100m freestyle, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, 100m backstroke) – International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Swimming World ...
At the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympic Games, Cockroft won three gold medals, retaining her title in the Women's 100 metres T34 Final, [36] and winning the Women's 400 metres T34 Final, recording a new world-record time of 58.78 seconds, [37] and the Women's 800 metres T34 Final. [38] She broke the Games record in all three events.