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Terri Goodknight is an American Paralympic athlete and wheelchair basketball player. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Paralympics.
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Terri Goodknight is an American Paralympic athlete and wheelchair basketball player. She won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Paralympics.
She graduated from Urbana High School, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [1] [2] [3]
At the 1992 Summer Paralympics, she competed in Women's 200 meters TW3, [4] Women's 400 meters TW3, [5] and Women's 100 meters TW3 finishing tenth. [6]
At the 1998 Summer Paralympics, in Seoul, she competed in Wheelchair Basketball, winning a gold medal. [7]
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