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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.
The Paralympics have also been tainted by steroid use. At the 2008 Games in Beijing, three powerlifters and a German basketball player were banned after having tested positive for banned substances. [16] This was a decrease in comparison to the ten powerlifters and one track athlete who were banned from the 2000 Games. [17]
Athletes at the 2024 Paris Paralympics are having no problem mixing business with pleasure, according to Team USA swimmer Anastasia Pagonis. In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Pagonis — a ...
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]
A Vermont Christian high school forfeited a girls basketball game because the opposing team had a transgender player, the head of school said.
The nation used to be a dominant Paralympic power in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, but has steadily declined since the 1990s to a point where it finished sixth in the 2012 Summer Paralympics medal count. The team then improved to a fourth-place finish in 2016, and third in 2020, and unexpectedly finished first at the 2018 Winter Paralympics.
University of Akron swimmer Grace Nuhfer wins a Paralympic silver medal with Team USA. ... at the Para-American Games during the 2023-2024 school year, clocking times of 2:04.22 in the 200 ...