para-athlete
Americannoun
plural
para-athletes-
Often, Para-athlete. an athlete with a disability who competes in the Paralympic Games.
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any athlete who has a disability.
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He explores the idea of becoming a para-athlete in the documentary and regularly does rugby commentary with S4C, but he said he found this frustrating at first.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023
The relays, which will feature around 10,000 torch bearers, will be captained by Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure and Florent Manaudou and para-athlete Dimitri Pavade.
From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023
Gaz Choudhry, who won Paralympic wheelchair basketball bronze and coached the team in Tokyo and para-athlete Sammi Kinghorn, a Paralympic silver and bronze medallist, are both made MBEs.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2022
She is a para-athlete whose specialism is the 100m, and has a punishing training schedule.
From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2016
But he added that a strict dividing line — para-athletes sticking to competing in para-athlete events, in other words — would not be unreasonable.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2014
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