Karissa Whitsell
Appearance
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Full name | Karissa Whitsell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | United States | 15 June 1981||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karissa Whitsell (born 15 June 1981) is an accomplished American blind cyclist. Whitsell, with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won four medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece. They won a gold medal in the road race/time trial event, another gold in the 3 km individual pursuit, a silver in the 1 km time trial, and a bronze in the sprint.[1]
Whitsell won a bronze medal in the time trial event in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.[2]
References
- ^ Sweet song
- ^ "Paralympics: Kiwi news day three". Television New Zealand. 10 September 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2011.
External links
- Karissa's Website
- USPC profile of Whitsell
- Story of Karissa being named US Blind Athlete of the year in 2004.
Categories:
- 1981 births
- Living people
- American female cyclists
- Blind people from the United States
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic cyclists of the United States
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- American cycling biography stubs
- American Paralympic medalist stubs