More Paralympic gold medals for US in equestrian and swimming
By JEROME PUGMIRE
Posted 9/7/24
The United States equestrian team has won three more medals in Paralympics dressage with Fiona Howard and Rebecca Hart clinching their third golds of the Paris Games. Howard won the Grade II …
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More Paralympic gold medals for US in equestrian and swimming
Rebecca Hart of the U.S. competes at the Individual Freestyle Event - Grade III at Château de Versailles at the 2024 Paralympics, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Kileigh Kane)
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By JEROME PUGMIRE
PARIS (AP) — The United States equestrian team won three more medals in Paralympics dressage on Saturday, and Fiona Howard and Rebecca Hart clinched their third gold medals of the Paris Games.
The Paralympic debutant Howard won the Grade II individual freestyle and the veteran Hart won it in Grade III. Earlier, teammate Kate Shoemaker claimed bronze in Grade IV.
Riders compete in five grades, with Grade I for the most severely impaired riders.
Howard and Hart previously won individual golds this week and helped the U.S. win the team event on Friday.
Long may it continue
American swimmer Jessica Long extended her mammoth Paralympics medal collection to 31 with gold in the S8 100-meter butterfly.
She won in 1 minute, 10.59 seconds at La Défense Arena, finishing one second clear of Viktoriia Ishchiulova. Britain's Alice Tai was third.
The 32-year-old Long also won the women's 400 freestyle on Wednesday.
Her Paralympic career started when she was 12 and won three golds at the 2004 Athens Games.
S8 is for swimmers with the absence of limbs. Long is a double amputee.
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