Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Paralympics/Did you know

This is the Paralympics Task Force's page for Did you know... (DYK) articles.

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Did you know?[edit]

...that Jeroen Straathof is the first and still only sports person in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics? (3 July 2007)

...that the Spanish Paralympic basketball team were stripped of their gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players did not have a disability? (18 August 2007)

... that in January 2006, British Paralympic sprinter John McFall's racing prosthesis was stolen, but anonymously returned a week later? (4 June 2008)

... that Hungarian fencer Pal Szekeres is the only person ever to have won medals at both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games? (9 September 2008)

... that British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing? (12 September 2008)

... that despite having excruciating pain in her back and knees because of the disease achondroplasia, Miranda Uhl went on to win a gold medal in the individual medley at the 2008 Summer Paralympics? (18 September 2008)

... that Singaporean equestrienne Laurentia Tan won Singapore's first-ever Paralympic medals, two bronzes in dressage, at the 2008 Summer Paralympics (23 September 2008)

... that athlete So Wa Wai was only able to compete at the 2008 Paralympic Games after being given a job by Cantopop star and actor Andy Lau that allowed him time to train? (23 September 2008)

... that Paralympic gold medalist swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis are nicknamed the "golden couple" of disability swimming? (23 September 2008)

... that British swimmer Matt Walker has won eight silver and bronze Paralympic medals in individual events, but all three of his gold medals have come in the 4×100 m freestyle relay? (26 September 2008)

... that British swimmer Heather Frederiksen won four medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympics after being told by doctors that she would never be able to swim again? (29 September 2008)

... that British equestrian Anne Dunham won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the 2008 Games at the age of 59? (3 October 2008)

... that Singaporean backstroke swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, who has muscular dystrophy, won a gold and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, setting two world records in the process? (5 December 2008)

... that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics? (10 March 2010)

... that Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games? (10 March 2010)

... that Matthew Stockford won three bronze medals for Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics? (10 March 2010)

... that Heath Calhoun and Andy Soule, both double-leg amputees due to wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, will represent the United States at the 2010 Winter Paralympics? (11 March 2010)

... that the symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", colored red, blue and green? (17 March 2010)

... that wheelchair marathon athlete Lango Sinkamba was Zambia's first Paralympian? (22 March 2010)

... that some athletes at the Winter Paralympic Games have broken their bones in order to gain a competitive advantage? (21 April 2010)

... that just £1500 of funding was available for the athletes of Great Britain at the 2002 Winter Paralympics? (22 April 2010)