Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals. She has also won over 50 world championship medals.
Jason Smyth is an Irish retired sprint runner. He competes in the T13 disability sport classification as he is legally blind, with his central vision being affected by Stargardt's disease; he also competes in elite non-Paralympic competition. As of July 2014, Smyth holds T13 World records in the 100m and 200m events.
Lesotho made its Paralympic Games début at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney. It has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, but never in the Winter Paralympics. Lesotho has never won a medal at the Paralympic Games.
The 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a disability competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Rheed McCracken is an Australian Paralympic athletics competitor. He named the 2012 Junior Athlete of the Year as part of the Australian Paralympian of the Year Awards. He represented Australia at the 2012 London Paralympics, 2016 Rio Paralympics and 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, where he won three silver and two bronze medals.
Sean Russo is an Australian swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Dmytro Vynohradets is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine. He competes in S3, SB2 (breaststroke) and SM3 events.
Juana Soto is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category TW4 sprint events.
Paul Nitz is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Sergii Klippert is a Paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S12 events.
Maksym Veraksa is a paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S12 events.
Danylo Chufarov is a paralympic swimmer from Ukraine competing mainly in category S13 events.
Igor Plotnikov is a paralympic swimmer from Russia competing mainly in category S6 events.
Oleksandr Mashchenko is a paralympic swimmer from Ukraine who competes in category S11 events and specializes in the breaststroke.
Yoshikazu Sakai is a Japanese paralympic swimmer who competes mainly in category S11 events.
Takayuki Suzuki is a Paralympic swimmer from Japan competing mainly in category events.
Sebastián Rodríguez Veloso is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer. He has competed at four Paralympic Games winning fifteen medals: eight gold, four silver and three bronze. His attendance at the Games was controversial after it was revealed that he had been jailed for bomb attacks while a member of First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups (GRAPO).
Tony Volpentest is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.
Dennis Oehler is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category PS4 pentathlon and TS2 sprint events.
Dana Jaster is a Paralympic athlete from the United States, competing mainly in the category J4 high jump and TS2,4 sprint events.
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