Medal record | ||
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Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing Switzerland | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
1996 Atlanta | 400 metres - T51 | |
2000 Sydney | 100 metres - T52 | |
2000 Sydney | 400 metres - T52 | |
1996 Atlanta | 200 metres - T51 | |
1996 Atlanta | 800 metres - T51 | |
2000 Sydney | 800 metres - T52 |
Ursina Greuter is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T52 wheelchair racing events.
Ursina has competed in two Paralympics winning six medals. In her first games in 1996 she won the 400m and won bronze medals in the 200m and 800m. In the 2000 Summer Paralympics she just failed to defend her 400m title finishing second to Canadian Lisa Franks but she did win the 100m and also won a second bronze medal in the 800m. [1]
Eliza Ault-Connell, is an Australian wheelchair racer, who competed at Paralympic and Olympic Games. She survived meningococcal disease and plays a major role in improving the Australian community's awareness of the disease.
Christie Dawes is an Australian Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete. She has won three medals in athletics at seven Paralympics from 1996 to 2021.
Natalie du Toit OIG MBE is a South African swimmer. She is best known for the gold medals she won at the 2004 Paralympic Games as well as the Commonwealth Games. She was one of two Paralympians to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; the other being table tennis player Natalia Partyka. Du Toit became the third amputee ever to qualify for the Olympics, where she placed 16th in the 10km swim.
Terezinha Guilhermina is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve brothers.
Tatyana McFadden is an American Paralympic athlete of Russian descent competing in the category T54. McFadden has won twenty Paralympic medals in multiple Summer Paralympic Games.
Amanda McGrory is an American wheelchair athlete.
Madison de Rozario, is an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair racer who specialises in middle and long-distance events. She competed at the 2008 Beijing, 2012 London, 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Summer Paralympics, winning two gold medals, three silver and a bronze. She has also won ten medals at the World Para Athletics Championships and four gold at the Commonwealth Games. De Rozario holds the world record in the Women's 800m T53 and formerly in the Women's 1500m T53/54.
Angela Ballard is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in T53 wheelchair sprint events. She became a paraplegic at age 7 due to a car accident.
Somaya Bousaid is a Tunisian Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category T13 middle-distance events.
Rima Akberdinovna Batalova is a Russian politician. She was formerly a Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance events.
Purificacion Santamarta is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T11 sprint events.
Kazu Hatanaka is a paralympic athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T54 wheelchair racing events.
Leticia Torres is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Madelene Nordlund is a Paralympic athlete from Sweden competing mainly in category T53 100m to 800m events.
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.
Juana Soto is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category TW4 sprint events.
Tracey Hinton is a Paralympic athlete being visually impaired and classed as T11 in the Paralympic classification system. Born in Cardiff and a member of Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club, Hinton has been blind since having cancer of the retina aged four which resulted in her losing her sight. She has won three silver and three bronze medals at Paralympic level.
Jade Jones-Hall, known previously as Jade Jones, is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike-to-wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Susan Beth Scott, is an American Paralympic swimmer.
Alexa Halko is a parasport athlete from the United States competing mainly in T34 classification sprint and middle-distance events. She competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, where she won a bronze and two silver medals for her country, and followed this with a second bronze five years later at the Tokyo Paralympics.