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China and the Russian Paralympic Committee finished atop the medal table at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. The overall medal race easily belonged to the Chinese juggernaut, with 19 goals, 19 silvers and 18 bronze medals, the most in each category. It took home 56 total medals. That fits with the overal...

Photo by Andrew Fielding-USA TODAY Sports PASADENA, California, August 9. ANOTHER spate of amazing times were set during the third day of action at the Para Pan Pacific Championships in Pasadena. U.S. Release Highlighted by gold medal performance from rookie Roderick Sewell, the 2014 U.S. Pan Pacifi...

Anastasia Pagonis twice lowered the world record in the women’s S11 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Paralympic Trials Friday in Minneapolis. Pagonis swam a time of 4 minutes, 59.28 seconds in prelims, then lowered it to 4:56.16 in the finals. That trounced the world record of 5:02.19 set by the Neth...

As Evan Austin mounted a charge for what he hoped would be a third Paralympics, he recognized that he needed a change. It was the fall of 2019, and Austin was fresh off arguably his greatest accomplishment in the pool, a gold medal in the 50-meter butterfly at the 2019 World Championships. A veteran...

U.S. Paralympics Swimming today announced its roster of 17 athletes who will represent Team USA at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London from Sept. 9-15. The team, which is comprised of 14 women and 3 men, includes 11 Paralympians and seven defending world champions. “We’re excited to...

Paralympics: McKenzie Coan Has Come a Long Way From Garage Pool to Tokyo McKenzie Coan expected to spend part of the summer of 2020 in Tokyo. Instead, the two-time Paralympian spent it far from Japan’s mega-metropolis. Very far, indeed, as in her hometown of Clarkesville, Georgia, with a “teeny, tin...

On the final day of competition at the Indianapolis 2018 World Para Swimming World Series, Team USA tallied eight medals, including five gold, to finish the event with 26 medals overall. This world series stop at Indiana University Natatorium featured 198 swimmers from 17 countries. To kick off the ...

Paralympics (Day 10 Men): Evan Austin, Robert Griswold End Games with Golds Evan Austin and Robert Griswold set American records to grab gold on the final night of the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday. Austin had a race on his hands in the men’s S7 50 butterfly, a race where .72 seconds separated the top...

Jessica Long, Rudy Garcia-Tolson Selected to Fifth Paralympics for Team USA Team USA announced the Paralympic swimming team for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics on Monday, a group of 24 women and 10 men that includes five-time Paralympians Jessica Long and Rudy Garcia-Tolson. The selection follows the three-...

Jessica Long Qualifies for 6th Paralympics (Full U.S. Team Roster) Jessica Long is off to the Paralympics for the sixth time in her storied career, U.S. Para Swimming announced on Sunday. The 29-time Paralympic medalist is one of 21 women and 12 men named by U.S. Para Swimming’s selection committee ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 9. THE United States will send 45 athletes (27 women, 18 men) to the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships, U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today. Athletes were selected for the meet, Aug. 6-10 in Pasadena, Calif...

TORONTO — Seventeen-time Paralympic medalist Jessica Long opened the 2015 CanAm Para-swimming Championships in Toronto today without holding back, breaking a world record in the 400-meter free (S8) women’s race. Long outswam her previous mark set at the London 2012 Olympic Games by more than a secon...

COLORADO SPRINGS - Twenty athletes were announced today by U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, to the U.S. swimming team roster for the 2015 Parapan American Games, held Aug. 7-15 in Toronto. With 13 female and seven male swimmers, the U.S. roster is highlighted by f...

Photo Courtesy: Paul Cunningham-USA TODAY Sports PASADENA, California, August 11. NEWCOMER Michelle Konkoly helped the United States close the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships on a golden note, breaking away from Australia as the anchor of the women's 4x100-meter 34 point freestyle relay...