Sport: Swimming

David Abrahams. Classification: SB13 (visual impairment). Ranked 1st in the world in the breaststroke. Holds the US record in the ...

The Backstory:Elizabeth Marks started her journey to the Paralympics in 2010, when she sustained bilateral hip injuries while serving as ...

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The Backstory:Morgan Stickney started competitively swimming at a just 10 years old. In 2013 she broke two small bones in ...

The backstory:A native of LianYunGang, China, Mei Mei was born with proxmal femoral focal deficiency in her right leg, which ...

The Backstory:Samantha Tubbs was born with undeveloped left arm and without her left hand. From an early age she was ...

 The backstory:Matthew was born with amniotic band syndrome, resulting in congenital differences in his lower right leg and both hands. ...

The Backstory: Lizzi Smith was born with no left forearm which was caused by amniotic band syndrome, but she didn’t ...

The backstory:Born without her right hand, Natalie took up competitive swimming in middle school. She progressed from a YWCA team ...

The backstory: Born in Vietnam, Haven lost her legs at 14 months old in a family suicide attempt that killed ...

The Backstory:At just two years old, Roderick Sewell had both legs amputate above the knees due to severe deformities that ...

The Backstory:Summer Schmit was born with congenital disarticulation of her right wrist and has no right hand. She started competitively ...

The Backstory:Joey Peppersack was born with tibial hemimelia, with a missing shin bone, which lead to a series of surgeries. ...

The Backstory:Paul Peterson III was involved in a motorcycle accident in 2007 that lead to the amputation of his right ...

The Backstory:At birth Jarrett Perry was diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), resulting in less blood distributed to him before ...

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The Backstory:Joe Murray's journey started before he was even born. After complications, he was born early at 35 weeks and ...

The Backstory:Born without her left hand, Elise Morley starting swimming at age four. Though it took until age nine when ...

The Backstory:Jessica Long was born in Siberia without fibula bones, ankles, or heals. She was adopted at a year old ...

The Backstory:At just 15 years old, Keegan Knott is the youngest member of the US Paralympic swim team. She was ...

The Backstory:Mikaela Jenkins was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, causing her left leg to be shorter than the other. ...

The Backstory:Dalton Herendeen was born with a blood clot in his left leg that quickly led to amputating his leg ...

The Backstory:David Gelfand was born without a knee in his left leg, no hip socket, smaller femur making his left ...

The Backstory:Paralympian Rudy Garcia-Tolson started his journey early on. He was born with popliteal pterygium syndrome, a club foot, webbed ...

 The backstory:Julia spent early childhood in a Russian orphanage, where she had both legs amputated due to congenital limb differences ...

The Backstory:At age 11, Tye Dutcher was in a lawnmower accident, causing the amputation of his lower right leg. He ...

The Backstory:Alyssia Crook was born with popliteal pterygium syndrome and at age five she was adopted from a Ukraine orphanage ...

The Backstory:Brickelle Bro had a fibular hemimelia and amniotic band syndrome before birth that caused her to amputate both of ...

 The Backstory:Hannah Aspden was born with congenital hip disarticulation and has no left leg. She was introduced to swimming at ...