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The United States women's national wheelchair basketball team began in the mid-1960s. The first women's team to compete alongside men in the Paralympic Games was in the inaugural 1968 tournament. A few years later in 1977, a women's wheelchair basketball division was created in the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA). [1]
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.
Evan Austin: Swimming: Men's 50 metre butterfly S7: 3 September Gold: Noah Malone Brittni Mason Nick Mayhugh Tatyana McFadden: Athletics: Mixed 4 × 100 metres relay: 3 September Gold: Kevin Mather: Archery: Men's individual recurve open: 3 September Gold: Nick Mayhugh: Athletics: Men's 200 metres T37: 4 September Gold: United States women's ...
Stickney represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the women's 400 metre freestyle S8 event and won a gold medal. She also competed in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay 34pts and won a gold medal.
On June 30, 2024, Chambers was named to team USA's roster to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [11] At the Paralympics she won a gold medal in the 400 metre freestyle S13 event and silver medals in the 100 metre breaststroke SB13 and 200 metre individual medley SM13 events. [12] [13]
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. It also hosted the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta and 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City.
During this time she had to relearn how to eat, speak, swallow and swim. [5] After extensive rehab on April 29, 2023, Smith was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships. During the event she won a bronze medal in the 200 metre freestyle S3 event. [6]