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Caitlyn Jenner (born 1949), American media personality, retired Olympic gold medal-winning athlete and transgender activist. [111] Daymond John (born 1969), American businessman, investor and television personality . [112] Colin Jones (1936–2021), English photographer and ballet dancer. [113]
Amy Palmiero-Winters (born August 18, 1972) is a below-knee amputee, long-distance runner, and triathlete. She holds eleven world records in various events. In 2010, she was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and the ESPN ESPY Award as the top female athlete with a disability in the world.
Kyle Maynard. Although he was born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, where fibrous bands prevent the development of fetal limbs, Maynard decided to pursue involvement in sports, first in youth league football, where he played nose tackle for the Collins Hill National Eagles at age 11.
Meet Amy Palmiero-Winters, an ultramarathoner and endurance athlete who won't let her disability define her. August 5, 2020 at 4:00 AM. Amy Palmiero-Winters was born to run. As a young athlete ...
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The inaugural winner of the Best Female Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award at the 2005 ceremony was an American swimmer named Erin Popovich, who is affected by achondroplasia. She won seven gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens . [ 7 ]
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
Tatyana McFadden (Татьяна Макфадден; born April 21, 1989 [1]) is an American Paralympic athlete competing in the category T54. McFadden has won twenty Paralympic medals in multiple Summer Paralympic Games and the Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability in 2015. [2]