Paul Dorrance Sones was a
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
Paralympic athlete. In the first
1960 Summer Paralympics
The 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games, retroactively designated as the 1960 Summer Paralympics ( it, Giochi paralimpici estivi del 1960), he competed and medaled in multiple sports including archery, swimming and
wheelchair basketball
Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...
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Archers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
1936 births
2015 deaths
Paralympic medalists in archery
Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
Paralympic medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for the United States
Paralympic archers for the United States
20th-century American people
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