Marla Lee Runyan is an American track and field athlete, road runner and marathon runner who is legally blind. She is a three-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres. She is also an athlete that competed in both the Paralympics and the Olympics, both reaching the finals.
Rosemary Little is an Australian Paralympic athlete. She won a bronze medal in wheelchair racing at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and has also competed in handcycling. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, her third Games, where switched from wheelchair racing to shot put.
Athletes have competed as Independent Paralympians at the Paralympic Games for various reasons, including political transition, international sanctions, suspensions of National Paralympic Committees and compassion.
Jessica Cooper Lewis is a Bermudian Paralympic athlete who competes in mainly 400 metres and 800 metres events. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 100 m T53.
Terese Terranova is a retired American para table tennis player. She became disabled after being involved in a car accident where she was crushed against a concrete wall by a car and resulted in her back being broken in five separate places.
Giuseppina "Giusy" Versace is an Italian Paralympic athlete who competes in sprinting events in international level events and a television presenter and member of the Senate for the Action party.
Krystal Leesa Shaw is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events.
For the American musician, songwriter, graphic designer and visual artist, writer, and music executive, see Natalie Sims.
Elizabeth "Lizzi" Smith is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was born without a left forearm due to amniotic band syndrome.
Leslie Cichocki is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was the United States' first intellectually impaired swimmer to participate in the Summer Paralympics when she was selected for the United States' 2016 Summer Paralympics team.
Valeria Andreyevna Shabalina is a Russian Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She is a three-time Paralympic champion. Furthermore, she has won multiple medals in both World Para Swimming Championships and INAS Global Games. She is a Merited Master of Sports of Russia.
Julia Kay Gaffney is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency and had her right leg with amputated above the knee and her left leg amputated below the knee due to fibular hemimelia when she was born.
Laura Gene Schwanger is a retired American Paralympic athlete and adaptive rower. She has competed at three Paralympic Games in track and field and returned twelve years later to compete in rowing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. She is a four time Paralympic champion including six silver medals and one bronze medal in athletics and won a bronze medal in rowing.
Snowboarding was one of the competitions at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, China. In total, eight medal events were held.
Sigita Markevičienė née Kriaučiūninė is a Lithuanian Paralympic athlete who competed in middle-distance running events at international track and field competitions. She is a six-time Paralympic medalist and a former world record holder in the 1500m B1 and 5000m B1. Markevičienė lost her sight in 1986 following a car accident.
Sara Fernández Roldán is a Spanish Paralympic athlete who competes in international track and field competitions, she competes in sprint and long jump. She is a World bronze medalist and a two-time European bronze medalist.
Beatriz Hatz is an American Paralympic athlete who competes in long jump and sprinting events at international track and field competitions. She was born without a fibula in her right leg and had the limb amputated below the knee when she was ten months old, she has also had surgical operations to straighten her knees.
LeAnn Shannon is a former American Paralympic athlete who competed in wheelchair racing events at international track and field competitions. She was the youngest Paralympic champion from the United States at the 1996 Summer Paralympics where she won three golds and one silver at the age of fourteen including breaking two world records, she had also competed at 1996 Summer Olympics in the 800m wheelchair demonstration event. She was paralysed in a car accident when she was less than one year old.
Linda Mastandrea is a civil rights and disability attorney, author and former Paralympic athlete. She was a Paralympic and World champion in wheelchair racing.
Pamela "Pam" McGonigle is an American retired Paralympic athlete who competed in middle-distance running, she competed at four Paralympic Games. She is a Paralympic champion and a double World silver medalist. McGonigle is an ambassador for the United States Association of Blind Athletes and was inducted into the hall of fame in 2013.
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