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She is classified as a T53 para-athlete. [2] Sammi is the fastest ever female British wheelchair racer regardless of classification over 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m. Samantha Kinghorn at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, T53 100 metres sprint, where she finished fifth. Kinghorn's first race was the 2012 London Mini Marathon, where she came second ...
Reinertsen was a member of the US Disabled Track Team for 7 years. [4] She represented the US at the 1992 Summer Paralympics [5] but found herself racing arm amputees due to low numbers of female competitors. [6] Although she was then world record holder in her own classification, [6] she came last in her heat. [7]
At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, three of the top four 'pilots' in the Men's individual pursuit for blind athletes were former elite level track cyclists in their own right, with four time 'Kilo' World Champion Francois Pervis of France becoming the third athlete to win both Olympic and Paralympic medals, as sighted 'pilot' for 'stoker' Raphael ...
In 2023, she started the Scout Bassett Fund, which bridges a financial gap for Paralympic athletes, whose “monthly stipend is pitiful compared to what Olympic athletes” earn, Bassett says ...
Deaf athletes typically compete among themselves at events such as the Deaflympics, or in able-bodied events (such as British hammer thrower Charlotte Payne) while athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities are usually assessed and given a para-athletics classification, which groups together athletes with similar ability levels.
In Paralympic athletics competitions, athletes are given a class depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classes are as follows: [1] 11–13: Blind and visually impaired; 20: Intellectually disabled; 32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant
In 2000, Sauvage was named the Female Athlete of the Year in the Sport Australia Awards. [3] In 2000, she was named the "World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability" at the first Laureus Sports Awards held in Monte Carlo. [4] In 1999 and 2000, she was named the International Female Athlete of the Year. [22]
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]