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Marybai Huking
Marybai Huking (born November 11, 1996) is an American goalball player who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She was adopted from China when she was two years old, and raised in Salt Lake City. Early life Born on 11 November 1996 with albinism and classified as legally blind. Career In 2010, Utah Foundation for the Blind and Visually Impaired introduced Marybai to goalball. At the 2020 Summer Games, she made 101 blocks in 72 minutes of her duration of playing. She is also a two-time Paralympic medalist, winning bronze in Rio and silver in Tokyo. References External links * * 1996 births Living people Female goalball players Paralympic goalball players for the United States Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States Paralympic medalists in goalball Goalball players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2015 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games University of Utah a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Summer Paralympics
) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , summer_prev = London 2012 , summer_next = Tokyo 2020 , winter_prev = Sochi 2014 , winter_next = Pyeongchang 2018 The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
