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Jason McElwain, nicknamed J-Mac (born October 20, 1988), is an American amateur athlete in basketball and marathon running, and a public speaker with high-functioning autism. In a 2006 high-school basketball game, he scored 20 points in the final few minutes of the contest, a feat which attracted international media attention.
Breanna Clark (born November 4, 1994) is an American Paralympic athlete who has competed in T20 category races. She was diagnosed with autism at age four. [ 1 ]
Arleta Meloch, T20 world record holding athlete at three distances. T20 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics in track and jump events. It broadly covers athletes with intellectual disabilities.
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Lisa Christina Llorens, OAM [1] (born 17 January 1978) [2] is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She was born in Canberra. [2] She specialises in Paralympic high jumping, long jumping, and sprinting, participating in competitions for athletes with autism. [3] Llorens is known as "The Cheetah" because she has a great affinity with cheetahs.
After analyzing 600 of the biggest sportsmen and women in the world, ESPN determined the most famous of them all. The 18 most famous athletes in the world in 2018 Skip to main content
The list of the most famous athletes in the world is dominated by footballers, and no athlete is more famous than one particular Real Madrid player. The 20 most famous athletes in the world Skip ...
For athletes who wish to enter Paralympic-level competition, a second step is done involving sport specific classification by technical experts familiar with the sport. Sport-specific classification is managed by the sports International Federation and includes the Sport Cognition Test Battery.