Paola Fantato
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| Born | 14 September 1959 Verona, Italy | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery Paralympic archery | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paola Fantato (born in Verona on September 13, 1959) is an Italian former archer, that won 8 medals (5 gold) at the Summer Paralympics.
She participated also at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Biography
At age 8 she was afflicted with poliomyelitis, and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since.[1] She competed in archery at five consecutive Summer Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2004 and won a total of five gold medals, one silver, and two bronzes. She participated in both the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, taking a bronze medal in women's individual and a gold in women's team at the Paralympic Games. She won gold medals in both the individual and team events for archery at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and took gold and silver at the 2004 Paralympics.
See also
References
- ^ "Paola Fantato" at sports-reference.com (retrieved 30 August 2012)
External links
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Olympic archers of Italy
- Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Paralympic archers of Italy
- Archers at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Italy
- Paralympic silver medalists for Italy
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Female archers
- Italian sportswomen