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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Para-athletics Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | B2 [1] [2] [a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Todd Hodgin is an American paralympic athlete and swimmer. He competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
Hodgin graduated from Richfield High School. [3] [b]
Hodgin represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Paralympics, winning three silver medals and a gold medal in athletics and swimming. [4]
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Steven Dillon Serio is a wheelchair basketball player. As a co-captain of the USA Men's National Wheelchair Basketball Team, he led the American men to their first Paralympic gold medal since 1988 at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games and defended the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He currently plays for the New York Rolling Knicks in the NWBA Championship Division.
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Diane Rakiecki is a Canadian Class 4 wheelchair racer, wheelchair basketball player and wheelchair tennis player who competed in the Paralympic Games and the World Athletics Championships. She won medals in national and regional Canadian wheelchair championships and the World Wheelchair Games. Rakiecki won the women's exhibition 800 metres wheelchair competition at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome and helped the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team to win the bronze medal at the 1990 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship in France and the gold medal in the women's wheelchair basketball tournament at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona. She finished second in the first ever officially recognized women's handcycle race of the New York City Marathon at the 2000 edition.
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Evelyn Marie Mulry Moore was an American athlete who won two gold medals in swimming events at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo and a gold and two silver medals at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. She also competed in field events at the National Wheelchair Games in the 1960s and 1970s. She was inducted into the National Wheelchair Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1978.
Michael Sametz is a Canadian road racing para cyclist who competes in the C3 classification. He won a bronze medal for Team Canada at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's road time trial C3.
Patricia Hennin is a Canadian C4-category Paralympic swimmer, track and field athlete and para association football player who has the brain disease cerebral palsy that has paralyzed her legs. She won silver medals in each of the women's 50-metre and 200-metre freestyle C4 competitions and a single bronze medal in the women's 100 freestyle C4 event at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in New York City. Hennin also won medals at the regional and national level in both Canada and the United States, setting multiple class records.
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Charles Roedelbronn is an American paralympic weightlifter. He competed at the 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Sebastian DeFrancesco was an American paralympic athlete and table tennis player. He competed at the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Kris Lenzo is an American paralympic athlete. He competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
Dean Houle is an American paralympic athlete and powerlifter. He competed at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.
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