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| Nationality | American | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Overland Park, Kansas, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Poland syndrome | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S10, SB9, SM10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yaseen El-Demerdash is an American Paralympic swimmer. He will represent the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.
El-Demerdash attended Blue Valley Southwest High School where was a high school All-American in the 100 breaststroke, was named the Kansas City Star Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2021 and, having skipped a grade, graduated high school at 17. [1] He currently is studying mechanical engineering at the University of Kansas. [2]
On September 25, 2023, El-Demerdash was named to team USA's roster to compete at the 2023 Parapan American Games. [3] At the Parapan American Games he won a gold medal in the 100 meter backstroke, silver medals in 100 meter freestyle and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and a bronze medal in the 50 meter freestyle S10 event. [4]
On June 30, 2024, Wilkerson was named to team USA's roster to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [5]
El-Demerdash was born to Dina Massoud and Aref El-Demerdash and has three siblings, Maraym, Yusuf and Adam. He was born with Poland syndrome, which stunted the development of his right hand and arm and left him without a right pectoral muscle. [6] [7]
Rudy Garcia-Tolson is a Paralympic swimmer, runner and triathlete from the USA.
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Robert Griswold is an American swimmer. He was a member of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Teams. He holds multiple American and world paralympic swimming records in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and individual medleys. He competes in the Paralympic classes S8/SB7/SM8, and has cerebral palsy that affects coordination and strength. The United States Center for SafeSport temporarily suspended Griswold in 2020, reinstated him prior to the 2021 Paralympic Games, and then temporarily suspended him again in 2022, after he was accused of raping a fellow member of the US Paralympic Team at the 2021 Paralympic Games and thereafter; Griswold was later removed as a member of the US National Team.
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Hannah Elizabeth Aspden is an American Paralympic swimmer. She was the youngest swimmer on Team USA to medal at either the Olympics or Paralympics in 2016. During the 2019–20 season at Queens University of Charlotte, Aspden broke two American Paralympic Short Course Meters Swimming records in both the 100-Meter Backstroke and the 100-Meter Freestyle.
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