 Brim at the 2024 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname | Kate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 31, 1998 [1] Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Lowell, Michigan, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Para-cycling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | H2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Katerina Brim (born May 31, 1998) is an American Para-cyclist. She represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Brim was born in Ukraine and moved to the United States after being adopted in 2003. [1] She graduated from Lowell High School in Lowell, Michigan. She then took college classes online at Southern New Hampshire University. [2]
Brim made her international debut for the United States at the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships and won gold medals in the road race H2 and time trial H2 events. [3] [2]
On May 23, 2023, she accepted a one-year suspension for a banned substance from the United States Anti-Doping Agency after the World Anti-Doping Agency denied her a retroactive therapeutic use exemption. She tested positive for Humalog, an insulin used to treat diabetes. She later applied for and was approved for a therapeutic use exemption. [4] [5] In November 2023, she represented the United States at the 2023 Parapan American Games and won a gold medal in the road time trial H1–5 and a silver medal in the road race H2–5 event. [6] [7]
On July 8, 2024, Brim qualified to represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [8] [9]
In 2017, Brim underwent a routine surgery for a herniated disc. [10] [11] A blood clot developed that traveled up her spinal canal, which led to a spinal cord injury and left her a quadriplegic. [12] [13] She is a type 1 diabetic. [14]
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