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Aaron Pike (athlete)
Aaron Pike (born May 4, 1986) is an American athlete who competes in wheelchair racing, biathlon, and cross-country skiing. He has competed at the 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics, as well as the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Paralympics. Pike finished second at the 2022 Boston Marathon, third at the 2021 and 2022 Chicago Marathons, and fourth at the 2018 and 2019 New York City Marathons as well as the 2021 Boston Marathon. He won multiple medals at the 2023 World Para Nordic Skiing Championships, including winning the 12.5 km seated event. Personal life Pike is from Park Rapids, Minnesota, US. His father served in the military, and as a result, Pike grew up in four different US states, and spent time in Germany. He studied at Ramstein High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany. At the age of 13, he was accidentally shot in a hunting accident in Virginia, US, which damaged his spinal cord. He studied sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and now lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Rapids, Minnesota
Park Rapids is a city in the Heartland Lakes region and is the county seat of Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States. It is near Itasca State Park, the source of the Mississippi River, as well as the beginning of the Heartland State Trail. The city was founded in 1890 near the Fish Hook River rapidsWarren Upham, (2008). ''Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance''. Minnesota Historical Society, 1920. Harvard University. Digitized Aug 8, 2007. pp. 244 and is located along U.S. Highway 71 and Minnesota State Highway 34. The population was 4,142 at the 2020 census. History Park Rapids became a city in 1882, and was named by Frank C. Rice after the park groves and prairies beside the Fish Hook River rapids. These rapids have since been dammed. Infrastructure Transportation Park Rapids and the surrounding Hubbard County area have three major transportation services. South of the city center is Park Rapids Municipal Airport (officially Konshok Field), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
