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Paralympic hopeful wins Miami Marathon. Brandon Lyons’ dream to compete in the 2020 Summer Paralympics were dashed when the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the games by a year and a slew of injuries ...
The 2024 Summer Paralympics kicked off with a bang Thursday with the opening ceremony in Paris. Athletes from around the world paraded down the iconic Champs-Elysées avenue to Place de la ...
Woodhall won the men's 400-meter T62 final with a time of 46.36 seconds during the Paris Paralympics to complete the golden summer for the power couple who have cultivated a large fan following by ...
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 ...
After watching his wife jump to victory at the Paris Olympics, Woodhall, a double-amputee sprinter originally from Syracuse, Utah, won his first Paralympic gold medal Friday during the men's 400m ...
His first major championship was the 2023 world championships, where he came 7th in the 100 metres.. The following year he came 10th in the same event at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships.
In 2017, Lyons became the first handcyclist resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. [2]Lyons made his international debut for the United States at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships and won a silver medal in the mixed team relay H1–5 event.
Jaydin Blackwell celebrates after winning the men's 100-meter T13 final and setting a new world record during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Summer Games at the Stade de France in Paris on Aug. 31, 2024.