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competed at the

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from 24 August to 5 September 2021.

Medalists

Archery

Eric Bennett,

Lia Coryell Lisa "Lia" Coryell (born January 26, 1965) is an American Paralympic archer who competes in international archery competitions. She is a World champion and has competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics. Coryell was a former Army An ...

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KJ Polish Kevin "KJ" Polish Jr. (born November 19, 1982) is an American Paralympic archer. He began archery aged three by his father, Kevin Sr., who owned an archery shop and began competing aged eleven. In 1999, Polish was involved in a car crash and s ...

, Emma Rose Ravish,

Andre Shelby Andre C. Shelby (born December 8, 1966) is a U.S. Paralympic archer and Paralympic and Parapan champion. Shelby was born in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1966 to Lee and Etta Shelby. He graduated from Jeffersonville High School in 1985. At Jeff ...

and

Matt Stutzman Matthew Stutzman (born December 10, 1982) is an American archer. He competed at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics and won a silver medal in 2012. Born without arms, Stutzman uses his legs and feet for most of his activities, including archery. He ...

have all qualified.

Men

Women

Mixed

Athletics

35 male athletes and 26 female athletes have been selected to compete. ;Men's track ;Women's track ;Mixed track ;Men's field ;Women's field

Cycling

Joseph Berenyi,

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Alicia Dana Alicia Throm Brelsford Dana (born February 12, 1969) is an American Paralympian. She qualified for the United States Paralympics Cycling National Team in 2001 and competed at the 2002 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships before taking a bre ...

, Thomas Davis, Alfredo de los Santos, Will Groulx, Cody Jung,

Oksana Masters Oksana Masters (born June 19, 1989) is an American multi-sport Paralympic athlete of Ukrainian descent from Louisville, Kentucky. Having primarily specialized in rowing and cross-country skiing, she won the first ever United States medal in tr ...

, Shawn Morelli, Christopher Murphy, Eric Pinney, Matthew Rodriguez, Monica Sereda, Jill Walsh and Jamie Whitmore have all qualified to compete.

Equestrian

Rebecca Hart, Beatrice Lasnier De Lavalette, Kate Shoemaker and Roxanne Trunnell have all qualified to compete.

Goalball

Men

;Group stage ---- ---- ---- ;Quarter-final ;Semi-finals ;Bronze medal match

Women

;Group stage ---- ---- ---- ;Quarter-final ;Semi-finals ;Gold medal match

Judo

Katie Davis, Ben Goodrich, Maria Liana Mutia and Robert Tanaka have all qualified to compete.

Paracanoeing

Kaitlyn Verfuerth and Blake Haxton have both qualified to compete. Haxton is also going to compete in rowing.

Paratriathlon

Seven paratriathletes have qualified to compete.

Powerlifting

Jacob Schrom has qualified to compete.

Rowing

U.S. qualified four boats for all of the rowing classes into the Paralympic regatta. All of them qualified after successfully entering the top seven for single sculls events and top eight for mixed events at the

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. Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting

Jazmin-Almlie-Ryan, Stetson Bardfield, Taylor Farmer, McKenna Geer, Yan Xiao Gong, John Joss and Kevin Nguyen have all qualified to compete.

Sitting volleyball

The women's sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after their results at the 2018 World ParaVolley Championships. ;Summary

Women's tournament

;Group play ---- ---- ;Semifinal ;Gold medal game

Swimming

34 American swimmers are qualified to compete in the Paralympics. ;Men ;Women

Table tennis

United States entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the games.

Ian Seidenfeld Ian Seidenfeld (born July 17, 2001) is an American para table tennis player. He represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Career Seidenfeld represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the men's table t ...

Tahl Leibovitz Tahl Leibovitz (born June 1, 1975) is an American para table tennis player who has played in five Paralympic Games. His highest ranking is world no.2 in class 9 in July 2008 and is now currently ranked world no.3 in that class and world no.17 in ...

qualified from

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which was held in

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and Jenson Van Emburgh via World Ranking allocation. ;Men

Taekwondo

Para taekwondo makes its debut appearance in the Paralympic programme,

Evan Medell Evan Medell (born March 31, 1997) is a Para Taekwondo Para Taekwondo is an adaptation of '' Taekwondo'' for disabled athletes. The sport's main governing body is World Taekwondo (WT). New disciplines such as ''kyorugi'' and ''poomsae'', b ...

Brianna Salinaro Brianna Salinaro (born May 10, 1998) is a taekwondo practitioner who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. She has cerebral palsy and is from Massapequa, New York. She started Taekwondo at age 9 and in 2016 became the first ...

, qualified to the 2020 Summer Paralympics via World Ranking.

Wheelchair basketball

Men's tournament

;Roster ;Groupstage ---- ---- ---- ;Quarter-final ;Semi-finals

Women's tournament

;Roster ;Groupstage ---- ---- ---- ;Quarterfinal ;Semifinal ;Bronze medal match

Wheelchair fencing

Ellen Geddes,

Terry Hayes Terry Hayes (born 8 October 1951) is an English-born Australian screenwriter, producer and author best known for his work with the Kennedy Miller film production house and his debut novel ''I Am Pilgrim''. Biography Born in Sussex, England, ...

and Shelby Jensen have all qualified to compete.

Wheelchair rugby

United States national wheelchair rugby team qualified for the Games for the games by winning the gold medal at the

. ;Team roster * Team event – 1 team of 12 players ;Group stage ---- ---- ;Semifinal ;Gold medal match

Wheelchair tennis

U.S. qualified seven players entries for wheelchair tennis. Five of them qualified by world ranking, while the other qualified by received the bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.

References

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2021 in American sports

Medalists

Archery

Men

Women

Mixed

Athletics

Cycling

Equestrian

Goalball

Men

Women

Judo

Paracanoeing

Paratriathlon

Powerlifting

Rowing

Shooting

Sitting volleyball

Women's tournament

Swimming

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Wheelchair basketball

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Wheelchair fencing

Wheelchair rugby

Wheelchair tennis

See also

References