Trischa Zorn (born June 1, 1964 in Orange, California) is an American

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swimmer. Blind from birth, she competed in Paralympic swimming (S12, SB12, and SM12 disability categories). She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games, having won 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver, and 5 bronze), and was inducted into the Paralympic Hall of Fame in 2012. She took the

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for athletes at the

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in Atlanta.

Biography

Zorn studied special education at the

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and school administration and supervision at

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and law at the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She competed in the 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Paralympic Games and won a combined total of 55 medals (41 gold, 9 silver, 5 bronze). In the 1996 Games in

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, she won more medals than any other athlete: two gold, three silver and three bronze. She had also topped the individual medal table at the 1992 Paralympic Games in

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, with ten gold medals and two silver. She had won seven gold medals during her first Games in 1980."Trischa Zorn Wins Fifth Gold"
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'', June 23, 1984 After the Sydney Games in 2000, she also held eight world records in her disability category (50 m backstroke, 100 m backstroke, 200 m backstroke, 200 m individual medley, 400 m individual medley, 200 m breaststroke, 4×50 m medley relay, 4×50 m free relay). On 1 January 2005, Zorn was one of eight athletes honoured during New Year celebrations in

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. The other seven were

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of Australia,

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of Liberia,

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, Gao Min of China, Félix Sánchez of the

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and

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of the United States. The eight athletes were "centre stage during the festivities in the countdown leading up to ringing in the New Year". In 2012, she was inducted into the International Paralympian Hall of Fame. Although no longer competing as a swimmer, Zorn works as a legal professional for the Department of Veterans Affairs and lives near Indianapolis, Indiana.

Paralympic medals

The medals without relay races from

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, are 46 (32, 9, 5) for IPC. The relay team of

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, in the category of Zorn, won 5 gold and 1 silver in these three Paralympics. The question marks in the infobox refer however to 9 gold medals (not 5 gold and 1 silver medal), this is to confirm the total number of 55 (of which 41 gold), reported in many websites including that of the official IPC in another of his article.

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Paralympic medals

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