Matthew Updike is an American

Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

cyclist. In 2008 he competed for Beijing Paralympics but didn't win anything. He won two

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...

s at the 2011 U.S. Paralympics Road Cycling National Championships for time trial and road race. The same year, he won two

silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...

s for mixed time trial and road race. At the

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ...

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, he won another gold for team relay.

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Living people Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York Date of birth missing (living people) Paralympic cyclists for the United States Paralympic gold medalists for the United States Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games {{US-Paralympic-medalist-stub