Swimmer Ellie Marks simply introduced house Workforce USA’s first medal on the 2024 Paralympic Video games!
On Thursday, Aug. 29, Marks sprinted her strategy to silver within the ladies’s 50-meter freestyle S6 race, incomes the U.S. its first medal of the Paris Paralympics.
Ending with a time of 32.90, Marks was simply behind China’s Jiang Yuyan, who gained gold in 32.59. Rounding out the rostrum was Ukraine swimmer Anna Hontar, who took the bronze medal.
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Per Workforce USA, together with her newest silver medal, Marks now has a complete of six Paralympic medals – two golds, two silver and two bronze. Her medal rely might additionally improve, as she’ll swim in 4 extra occasions: the 200-meter particular person medley SM6, the 50-meter butterfly S6 and the 100-meter breaststroke S6.
Marks’ journey to turning into a Paralympic swimming champion started again in 2012, two years after she sustained a bilateral hip damage whereas within the Military. She was accepted into the US Military World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) and located “match for responsibility” as a 68w fight medic.
Since that point, over a decade later, Marks has excelled within the sport. In 2016 she was the recipient of the Pat Tillman Award on the ESPY Awards, and a yr later was inducted into the Military Ladies’s Corridor of Fame.
Marks made her official debut as a Paralympic swimmer on the 2016 Video games in Rio de Janeiro, after which competed once more within the Tokyo Video games in 2021.
Workforce USA had different standout moments within the pool on Thursday, as Christie Raleigh Crossley earned Workforce USA’s second medal of the 2024 Paralympic Video games with a silver within the ladies’s 50-meter freestyle S10. China’s Yi Chen of China took gold and Canada’s Aurélie Rivard earned bronze.
Within the ladies’s 100-meter butterfly S13, Grace Nuhfer — making her Paralympic debut — earned silver, behind Italy’s Carlotta Gilli who took gold and Muslima Odilova of Uzbekistan who completed third, incomes bronze.
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