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In 1977, Hansen recruited Terry Fox to join the Vancouver Cable Cars to play on their wheelchair basketball team. The two became good friends. [8] Hansen went on to become a world class champion wheelchair marathoner and Paralympic athlete. He competed in wheelchair racing, winning a total of six medals; three gold, two silver, and one bronze.
It was also the year that she got her first kneeling wheelchair. [11] The pinnacle being the world-famous Boston Marathon where she recorded her first victory, in the women's wheelchair division, in 1997, breaking the stranglehold of the 'Queen of Boston', US racer Jean Driscoll. Sauvage went on to win a further three Boston titles in 1998 ...
Wheelchair racing at the Summer Olympics featured as demonstration competitions at the multi-sport event, appearing within the Olympic athletics programme from 1984 to 2004. [1] On each occasion two track races were held: a men's 1500 metres race and a women's 800 metres race. [ 2 ]
100 m 18.06 gold medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games Cockroft winning the 100 m T34 qualifying heat at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Hannah Lucy Cockroft [3] (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification and TV presenter.
This category is for wheelchair racing athletes who have competed at the Summer Paralympics. Pages in category "Paralympic wheelchair racers" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
Kurt Harry Fearnley, AO PLY [1] [2] (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum .
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.
This category is for wheelchair athletes who competed in the exhibition wheel chair races held at the Summer Olympics from 1984 to 2004. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.