Shea Cowart
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Track and field (T44) | ||
Representing United States | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2000 Sydney | 100 m - T44 | |
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.
External links
[edit]Shea Cowart at the International Paralympic Committee
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic track and field athletes for the United States
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- American amputees
- Living people
- American female sprinters
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century American sportswomen
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