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  2. List of athletes who have competed in the Paralympics and ...

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    Deaf Hungarian fencer Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő won two individual medals (a gold and a bronze) and five team medals at the Olympics between 1960 and 1976. She never competed at the Deaflympics, as fencing was never part of the event's programme. [1] [2] Several athletes with disabilities have competed in both the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

  3. United States at the Paralympics - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Since 2018, payouts to Paralympic athletes have been the same as to the Olympians. The International Paralympic Committee noted that "'Operation Gold Awards' for [American] Paralympic athletes [would] be increased by as much as 400 percent."

  4. Paralympic Games - Wikipedia

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    Athletes with disabilities did compete at the Olympic Games prior to the advent of the Paralympics. The first athlete to do so was German-American gymnast George Eyser in 1904, who had one artificial leg. Olivér Halassy, a Hungarian amputee water polo player, competed in three successive Olympic Games, beginning in 1928. [6]

  5. Special Olympics - Wikipedia

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    As in the Olympics, events are introduced in training and then added to the competitive schedule, and from there the list of sports and events continued to grow. Special Olympics has more than 30 Olympic-type individual and team sports that provide meaningful training and competition opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.

  6. List of IPC world records in athletics - Wikipedia

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    32–38: Athletes with cerebral palsy; classes 32–34 compete in wheelchairs, while 35–38 are ambulant; 40–46: Ambulant athletes with amputations or other disabilities such as dwarfism; 51–58: Wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries or amputations; 61–64: Athletes with limb differences; The IPC recognizes records for each of ...

  7. Special Olympics USA - Wikipedia

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    The 2022 Special Olympics USA Games were held in Orlando, Florida, from June 5-11, 2022. The USA Games featured 5,500 athletes and coaches from all 50 states and The Caribbean. The opening ceremony was held on June 5 at Exploria Stadium and was produced by Disney Live Entertainment featuring performances from Sara Bareilles and others. [23]

  8. List of Olympic medalists for the United States - Wikipedia

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    Men's team: August 2 Gold: Suzannah Bianco Tammy Cleland Becky Dyroen-Lancer Emily LeSueur Heather Pease Jill Savery Nathalie Schneyder Heather Simmons-Carrasco Jill Sudduth Margot Thien: Synchronized swimming: Team: August 2 Gold: Lindsay Davenport: Tennis: Women's singles: August 2 Gold: Alvin Harrison Anthuan Maybank Derek Mills Jason Rouser ...

  9. United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Olympic Committee headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee logo Team USA logo U.S. Olympic Team logo. Upon the founding of the International Olympic Committee in 1894, the two American IOC members – James Edward Sullivan and William Milligan Sloane – formed a committee to organize the participation of American athletes in the 1896 ...