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Gia Pergolini (born February 3, 2004) is an American Paralympic swimmer. She represented the United States at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.
Pagonis' diagnosis is autoimmune retinopathy which caused her sight to deteriorate rapidly at the age of 11, and she lost her vision by the age of 14. [13] She has a guide dog named Radar, which she says changed her life and helped her with the depression she had due to her vision loss.
Gia Pergolini of Team United States reacts on the podium after the women's 100m backstroke S13 Final on day two of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena.
Pergolini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Gia Pergolini (born 2004), American Paralympic swimmer; Mario Pergolini (born 1964), Argentine journalist, media producer and businessman
Gia Pergolini squeaked in for silver in a tight race, adding another Paralympic medal to her resume. Pergolini stopped the clock at 27.51 seconds, just nine one-hundredths of a second ahead of ...
Anastasia Pagonis, 17, won the first Tokyo Paralympics gold medal for Team USA and Gia Pergolini added another to the country's medal count. Pair of 17-year-old Paralympians break records, win ...
She became a T10-complete paraplegic after an epidural injection to treat post-shingles back pain in 2008. [4] [5] [6] She broke many world records in the S7 classification, and won multiple gold medals at the IPC Swimming World Championships in 2009 and 2010. [7]
Georgia is in the top 10 states with the most athletes on Team USA for this summer's Olympics. Here's a look at who they are and where they are from.