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Shea Cowart

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Shea Cowart
Medal record
Track and field (T44)
Representing  United States
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney 100 m - T44
Gold medal – first place 2000 Sydney 200 m - T44

Shea Cowart is an American sprinter. At age six she contracted meningococcemia, which resulted in both of her legs being amputated below the knee. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal and broke the world record in the women's T44 class 100 m race, and won another gold in the T44 200 m event.

Shea Cowart at the International Paralympic Committee Edit this at Wikidata