: Tokyo 2020: As Sarah Storey makes history, a look at five of the greatest Paralympic athletes #IndiaNEWS Cyclist Sarah Storey made history Thursday when she became Britain’s most successful Paralympics

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Tokyo 2020: As Sarah Storey makes history, a look at five of the greatest Paralympic athletes #IndiaNEWS
Cyclist Sarah Storey made history Thursday when she became Britain’s most successful Paralympics athlete with her 17th gold and 28th medal of a career that started 29 years ago in the swimming pool at Barcelona in 1992.Here, we highlights five of the greatest Paralympians of all time:Trischa Zorn (USA) - swimmingThe greatest Paralympics medal winner in history, by some distance, visually impaired American swimmer Zorn won 55 medals including 41 golds from Arnhem 1980 to Athens 2004.Born in 1964 with aniridia and classified legally blind, she received two artificial iris implants in 2003 that improved her vision to 20/150 though it did not change her event classification.The pinnacle of her career came in Barcelona 1992 at the age of 28 where she was the most successful athlete of the Games with 10 gold and two silver medals.In 2012, Zorn – who won golds in every discipline, freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke – was inducted into the International Paralympic Committee Hall of Fame.Heinz Frei (SWI) - Athletics, cycling, cross-country skiing At the grand old age of 63, Swiss multisports master Frei defied Father Time to win a silver medal in cycling’s H3 road race in Tokyo on Wednesday and...Read more

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