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Swimmers who can use their arms and have fair function in their hands but who cannot use their trunk or legs. Athletes with amputations of three limbs are allowed to swim in this sport. Mayumi Narita (15-3-2) Clodoaldo Silva (6-5-2) 50 metre backstroke 50 metre butterfly 50 metre freestyle 100 metre breaststroke 100 metre freestyle
Rudy Garcia-Tolson (born September 14, 1988) [1] is a Paralympic swimmer, runner and triathlete from the USA.. He was born with popliteal pterygium syndrome, resulting in a club foot, webbed fingers on both hands, a cleft lip and palate and the inability to straighten his legs.
Trischa Zorn (born June 1, 1964, in Orange, California) [1] is an American Paralympic swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12, and SM12 disability categories). [ 1 ] She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games , having won 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver, and 5 bronze), [ 2 ] and was ...
She began swimming in her grandparents' pool before joining her first competitive team in 2002. The next year, Long was selected as Maryland Swimming's 2003 Female Swimmer with a Disability of the Year. [6] Long trained with the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. Long's brother, Joshua, was adopted at the same time from the same Siberian orphanage. [7]
Jessica Long (4–1–1) Swimming 2012: winners: table: London, United Kingdom: 503 503 503 516 1522 Jacqueline Freney (8–0–0) Swimming Daniel Dias (6–0–0) Swimming Matthew Cowdrey (5–2–1) Swimming Jessica Long (5–2–1) Swimming 2016: winners: table: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 529 529 529 539 1597
The light-hearted pre-race singing and dancing worked out for Pergolini, who earned the first American gold medal of the 2024 Paralympics with a time of 1:04.93 — just short of her world record ...
NANTERRE, France — American para swimmer Morgan Stickney dominated the field in the 400-meter freestyle SM7 final, winning by a stunning 17 seconds and setting a Paralympic record time of 4:53.88.
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.