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Long before the Paralympic Games, American gymnast George Eyser, who had a wooden leg, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and won three gold medals, two silver and a bronze, including a gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard. There have also been other amputee medallists at the ...
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.
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Retrieved 3 April 2010 . The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960–1984), such as relay and team members.
Athletics was one of the first eight sports to be competed in the Summer Paralympics which began in 1960. [1] At the time it debuted, only track events were held: club throw, javelin throw, pentathlon (for male athletes) precision club throw and shot put which held between men and women. They were held between three classes per event: class A ...
Paralympic swimmer Már Gunnarsson, who recently competed in Paris, is also a musician, student and advocate for the rights of visually impaired people. Openly gay Paralympian Már Gunnarsson ...
The table is pre-sorted by the name of each Paralympic Committee, but can be displayed as sorted by any other column, such as the total number of gold medals or total number of overall medals. To sort by gold, silver, and then bronze (as used unofficially by the IPC and by most broadcasters outside the US) sort first by the bronze column, then ...
At the 2024 Para National Championships, Perris with pilot Luke Zaccaria set a national record in the team sprint and achieved a World Championship and Paralympic qualifying time in the 1km time trial. [4] He competed at the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
He served as chairperson of the Brazilian Paralympic Committee from 2009 to 2017, chairperson of the Americas Paralympic Committee from 2005 to 2009, and as a member of the Nominating Committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. [3] [4] He is the current president of the International Paralympic Committee since 8 September 2017.