Features Editor
Here is a wrap up of the last few American medals earned at the Paralympic Games, plus a total medal count.
In the debut of para snowboard cross, Amy Purdy
earned bronze in the women’s event and Americans swept the podium in the men’s
event with Evan Strong, Michael Shea, and Keith Gabel earning gold, silver, and
bronze respectively.
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| Sochi Paralympic Games |
In the super combined, Danelle Umstead earned a
bronze medal and Staphanie Jallen earned bronze in the women’s visually
impaired and standing events and Mark Bathum and Heath Calhoun earned silver in
the visually impaired and sitting men’s events.
Oksana Masters earned a bronze medal in the final
women’s 5km cross country skiing event, sitting classification.
The men’s ice sledge hockey team beat Russia 1:0 in
order to win a gold medal.
In
the final medal count, the United States earned two gold, seven silver, and nine
bronze medals for the third highest total of 18 medals behind Russia who earned
80 medals, 30 of them being gold, and Ukraine who earned 25 total medals.
