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In USA’s final swimming event of the night, Grace Nuhfer picked up a silver in the women’s 100 butterfly S13 for her first Paralympic medal with a time of 1:03.88.
As a result, she qualified to represent the United States at the 2023 Parapan American Games. [1] During the Parapan American Games she won a silver medal in the 50 meter freestyle S13 event with a Parapan American Games record time of 27.90. [5] [6] On June 30, 2024, Nuhfer was named to team USA's roster to compete at the 2024 Summer ...
Robert Griswold (born November 27, 1996) is an American swimmer.He was a member of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Paralympic Swimming Teams. [2] He holds multiple American and world paralympic swimming records in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and individual medleys. [3]
Julia Kay Gaffney (born May 1, 2000) is an American Paralympic swimmer who competes in international level events. She was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency and had her right leg with amputated above the knee and her left leg amputated below the knee due to fibular hemimelia when she was born.
The U.S. swimmer expressed dismay shortly after winning silver in the 50-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paralympic Games. She was responding to criticism over the category in which she competes.
A Vermont Christian high school forfeited a girls basketball game because the opposing team had a transgender player, the head of school said.
The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. The United States was the co-host of the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York .
At the World Championships, she won a gold medal in all seven events she participated in, to lead all swimmers in gold medals. Her seven gold medals were the most in a single championships by an American since Jessica Long also won seven gold medals in 2010. [4] Following the 2022 World Para Championships, she fell ill with a respiratory infection.